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Reference. The text up to the 1st two tatas is published by the Jaina-Vidya-Prasaraka-Varga, Palitana, in Samvat 1964 and also in the Lalana-niketana Jaina Granthamala, Bhatade, Sihor, Kathiawar. The text with the author's own commentary is published in the D. L. J. P. F. Series as No. 22 in A. D. 1914. Here, too, the text goes up to the 2nd tata only. The complete text (containing all the three tatas) along with its Gujarati translation and occasional elucidation, is published by Jaina Pustaka Pracaraka Samstha, Surat, in Vikrama Samvat 2005. This edition contains my Gujarati introduction mentioned on p. 428.
For description of an additional Ms. having both the text and its svopajña vṛtti see B. B. R. A. S. Vols. III-IV, P. 405.
For Mss. of the text see Jinaratnakośa (Vol. I, p. 52). Here Mss. of the svopajña com., too, are noted.
उपदेशरत्नाकर
( तट १-२ ) स्वोपज्ञ विवरण सहित
No. 267
Upadesaratnākara (Tatas I-II)
with svopajña vivaraṇa
172.
1871-72.
Size.- 10 in. by 4 in.
Extent. 252+1=253 folios; 13 lines to a page; 35 letters to a line.
Description. Country paper thin and greyish; Devanagari characters with as; clear, big, uniform and good hand-writing; numbers for foll. marked in two different margins on one and the same side; borders of foll. I to 35 ruled in two lines in red ink, whereas those of foll. 36 to 252, in three lines; dandas in red ink; edges of the 1st two foll. and the last slightly damaged; some of the foll. stuck together due to the presence of gum in the ink used; owing to ignorant and careless separation some of them are a little bit torn ; e. g. the 8th and the 93rd; condition very
