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Nyaya: Svetāmbara works
Extent.- 245 + 1-56 = 190 folios ; 10 lines to a page ; 42 letters
'to a line. Description.- Country paper thick, smooth and grey ; Jaina
Devanāgari characters with qehENIS ; bold, legible, fairly uniform and elegant hand-writing ; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink, with some space kept blank between these pairs ; red chalk used; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin ; every fol. has a small hole in the centre; this hole is kept probably with a view to pass a string through it to keep the Ms. in a compact form ; several foll. more or less damaged as they are worm-eaten; condition tolerably good ; foll. 33 to 46, 80 to 98, 100, 102, 103, 195 to 197, 232 to 237, 239, 240 and 243 are missing; this Ms. ends abruptly while dealing with the vyākhyā of the fourth adhikāra; both the vyākhyā and the
vivaraṇa incomplete ; fol. 133rd repeated. Age.— Fairly old. Author of the vyākhyā.- Haribhadra Sūri, the very author of
Anekantajayapatäkāprakaraņa. For details see p. 2. Author of the vivarana. - Municandra Sūri, guru of Deva Sūri, and
author of Lalitavistarāțippaņaka. See Descriptive Catalogue of Jaina Mss. (Vol. XVII, pt. II, p. 220 and pt. III, p. 229).
Subject.— The svopajña vyākhyā of Anekāntajayapatākāprakaraña
and its elucidation, both in Sanskrit. Begins.-(text) fol. 1a 11 0011 A: TEXTrainer: 11
स्वपरोपकृतये अनेकान्तजयपताकाख्यप्रकरणव्याख्या प्रस्तूयते ।। इह चादावेवाचार्यः शिष्टसमयप्रतिपालनाय विघ्नविनायकोपशान्तये प्रयोजनादिप्रतिपाह(द)नाथै चेममार्यासमूहमाह ॥ जयति विनिजितराग इत्यादि । तत्र शिष्टानामयं समयो यदुत शिष्टाः क्वचिदिष्टवस्तुनि प्रवर्तमानाः सन्त
e cada para gari etc. (com. ) fol. 14* signaaigarraciala starania struarantara farqa (CT) CHRT: HATA: ll 3: U