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276.] Metaphysics etc. : Svetambara works
451 श्रीयशोविजयगणिविरचितमुपदेशरहस्यपकरणं विवरणं सटीकं सो(स्वो)पज्ञं समाप्तमिति समाप्तः श्रेयः । ग्रंथ संपूर्ण । ग्रंथाग्रंथसंख्या ३३०० संवतं १८४८ना वर्षे शाके १७१३ प्रवर्त्तमान्ये । मासोत्तममासे पुण्यपवित्रमासे आषाढमासे कृष्णपक्षे तृतीयायां तिथौ चंद्रवासरे लिखितमिदं पुस्तकं भी सरत'बिंदरे ॥ श्लोक
यादृशं पुस्तकं दृष्ट्वा दृष्ट्वाशं लिखितं मया ।
यदि शुद्धमशुद्धं वा मम दोषो न दीयते ॥१॥ etc. Reference.- Published along with the author's own commentary
by Mansukhbhai Bhagubhai in Samvat 1967. In the beginning there is a table of contents in Sanskrit. This is followed by an alphabetical index of verses of the text. In the end there is a list of quotations.
For Mss. of the text and its commentary see Jinaratnakoka (Vol. I, p. 52 ).
'उपदेशशतक
Upadeśasataka [धर्मोपदेशशतक ]
[ Dharmopadesasataka ] [महापुरुषचरित]
[ Mahapurusacarita] No. 276
609.
1895-98. Size.-104 in. by 44 in. Extent.- 34 folios; 22 lines to a page; 73 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper thin and old ; Jaina Devanagari
characters; very small hand-writing, yet fairly legible ; borders sometimes doubly ruled in four black lines & sometimes in 3 lines and that, too, not carefully ; red chalk used profusely; yellow pigment very rarely; corrections made in the margins; foll. numbered as usual ; the upper border of the first as well as the lower border of the last foll. are completely pasted up with a piece of paper of the same size as the fol.; corners worn out at times; some of them are pasted with strips of paper ; the 33rd fol. blotted in the
1 There are three other works of this name. One of them is anonymous. of the rest the authors are Vibudhavimala (vide No. 279) and Darsanasāgara Gaņi respectively.