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Metaphysics etc. : Śretambara works
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'उपदेशसप्तति
Upadeśasaptati No. 280
1204.
1886-92. Size.- 10 in. by 4} in. Extent.- 58 folios ; 17 lines to a page ; 48 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper thin and white; Jaina Devanāgari
characters; small, legible and beautiful hand-writing ; borders ruled in four lines in black ink ; foll. numbered as usual ; fol. 1° blank ; some foll. slightly worm-eaten ; condition tolerably good ; extent 3000 ślokas; the work is in verse ; it is composed in Samvat 1503 ; the colophon not given ; the entire work is divided into five adhikāras (sections; the extent of each of them is as under :
Adhikara I foll. b. to 18*
, 11 , 182 , 300, „ III 300 „ 35* » IV , 35a 456
V 456 1 586. Age. — Fairly old. Author.-- Somadharma Gani, pupil of Mahopädhyāya Caritra
ratna Gaņi, pupil of Somasundara Súri of the Tapā gaccha. Somadharma Gaại has commented upon Upadeśasaptāti,
his own work. Vide Jinaratnakośa ( Vol. I, p. 53). Subject.- This work deals with three fundamental principles viz.
deity, preceptor and religion in 2, 1 and 2 adhikäras. Here is given advice more or less of a spiritual nature by means of 75 stories. Some of them refer to the tirthas or holy places, some explain the nature of a preceptor, and some elucidate the grhastha-dharma. For details see "ends” of No. 281. Lives of several historical persons (such as r ara ) are narrated here.
Begins.- fol. 1 VGO II
UFUTA: 11
1 There is another work of this name, and it, too, is furnished with & commentary (dated Samyat 1547) by the author himself. His name is Kşemą. rāja. He belongs to the Kbaratara gaccha,
