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Metaphysics etc. : Svetambara works
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लाप्रकरण
Upadeśamálaprakaraņa स्वोपज्ञ वृत्ति सहित
with svopajda vrtti
1202. No.262
1886-92. Size.- Io in. by 4g in. Extent.- 360 folios ; 13 lines to a page ; 60 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper somewhat thick, tough and white;
Jaina Devanagari characters with frequent पृष्ठमात्रा; sufficiently big, quite legible, uniform and beautiful handwriting ; borders neatly ruled in four lines in black ink ; red chalk used at times3; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin%; fol. I. blank except that 'उपदेशमालावति' is written on it ; yellow pigment used while making corrections ; some of the foll, slightly worm-eaten; condition on the whole good; both the text and the commentary complete ;
total extent 13868 slokas, Age.- Pretty old. Author of the commentary.- Maladharin Hemacandra Suri, same
as that of the text, Subject.- The Prakrit text along with its explanation in Sanskrit
by the author himself. Begins.- ( text ) fol. 10
मिदमकम्ममविग्गह etc. as in No. 263. "- ( com. ) fol. 1 ५६० ।। 8ः । अहे ॥ ॐ नमो वीतरागाय ॥ . येन प्रबोधपरिनिर्मितवाग्वरमां
क्षिप्त्योदृतानि भुवनानि भवांधकपात निःशेषनाकिविमुदितपादपनो
स्याम्ममाशुभमिदे स युगादिदेवः॥१॥ शेयार्णवं सरवरैरिव यैस्समंतात्
सबोधमंदरमथाप्रविमध्य(ध्य)लग्धाः जीवादितत्सबररत्नचयो भवंतु
सेमिये विजयिनो मिनबीरपादाः॥२॥ etc.