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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
ग्रंथोपसमाप्तिमाह इति ।
१३ गुरौ । Reference.
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धर्म अर्थवर कामदमोक्षवर्गे ।
किंचित् मया प्रगटितो उपदेशलेशः ॥ सन्मार्गगामिभिनरैरुपदेश धार्य ( : ) ।
तत्त्वस्वरूपमिति गम्यविचारणीयः ॥ ४१ ॥ नयन गगनवादश्र्चंद्रमा ( १७०२१) मात्र वर्षे । निरमलवरपक्षे पोसमासे दशम्यां ॥ तरणिपुरबरेंद्रे (S) लेषि श्रीवाचकेन ।
स जयतु चिरकालं शोधितं वाग्विलासैः ॥ ४२ ॥ इति श्रीउपदेशरसाल ग्रंथ संपूर्णम् ॥ सं० १८२२ वर्षे आषाढ वद
The opening line of this work tallies with that of Suktamala of Kesaravimala composed in Samvat 1754 and described in B. B. R. A. S. vols. III-IV, p. 453.
Upadesarasāla with vyākhyā
उपदेशरसाल व्याख्यासहित
No. 274
Size— roÎ in. by 5 in.
Extent.-- 148-31 = 117 folios; 13 lines to a page; 37 letters to a line. Description. Country paper thick and white; Jaina Devanagari characters; neither too big nor too small, legible and good hand-writing; borders ruled in three lines and edges in one, in red ink ; at times all the four edges are ruled; this Ms. contains both the text and its explanation; the text written in Gujarati verses in Malini metre; explanation in prose in Gujaratī in a smaller hand at times; foll. 1-3 lacking; the rooth fol. slightly stained ; end not abrupt, though the beginning for both the text and its explanation is so.
Age.— Pretty old.
1203.
1886-92.