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'उपदेशमालाप्रकरण
No. 261
Begins. fol. 2a
Jaina Literature and Philosophy
[261.
Upe deśamālā prakaraṇa
Size. 10 in. by 4 in.
Extent. 25-1=24 folios; 11 lines to a page; 37 letters to a line. Description. Country paper thin, rough and white; Jaina Devanagari characters with rare qars; very big, perfectly legible, uniform and beautiful hand-writing; mātrās and ikaras (f) written artificially when occurring in the top-line of a fol.; borders indifferently ruled in three lines, in red ink; numbers for the verses and dandas written in red ink; same is the case with the last line; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin; fol. 25b blank; fol. I missing; otherwise complete; the last verse numbered as 505; yellow pigment used for making corrections; unnumbered sides are decorated with a small disc in red colour, in the centre; the numbered, in each of the two margins; edges of some of the foll. gone; condition on the whole good. Age.- Old.
Ends. fol. 24b
सं । नाणं सिक्खिज्ज सुगुरुमूलंमि ।
स चिय कीर सम्मं । जं तच्चिय सयाइ विनाणे ॥ १५ ॥ किं नाणं को दा(?)या । का गहणविही गुणाय के तस्स । दारक्कमेण इमिणा । नाणस्स परूवणं दु (बु) च्छं ॥ १६ ॥ etc.
101. 1872-73.
उवपसमालकरणे । etc. up to सया सुहत्थीहिं । as in No. 263. This is followed by the lines as under:
।। ९०५ इति कुसुममाला समाप्ता ॥ पं० भद्रद्देमगणिशिष्य संयमजयगणिना लिखिता पूज्य विवेकजयगणिभणनार्थे 'रंगपुर ' ग्रामे |
N. B. For additional information see No. 259.
1 The scribe has named this work as Kusumamāla.
