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281.]
Metaphysics etc. : Svetambara works
461
उपदेशसप्तति
Upadeśasaptati
138. No. 281
1873-74. Size.— 101 in. by 44 in. Extent. - 58 foliós ; 15 lines to a page ; 54 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper thin and greyish ; Jaina Devanāgari
characters with occasional IS; small, legible and good hand-writing; borders ruled in four lines in black ink; red chalk used; yellow pigment, too; numbers for foll. entered in both the margins as usual; fol. I. blank3B edges of the first and last two foll. slightly damaged ; condition tolerably good; a table of contents on foll. 58. and 58b; from the point of correctness this Ms. seems to be better than No. 280 ; complete ; the colophon not given ; the entire work is divided into five adhikaras; the extent of each of them is as under:Adhikāra I foll. I to 162
II
, 16 , 29 ,, III , 29 , 330
IV , 330
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Age.- Samvat 1672. Begins.-- fol. I0
॥ ६॥॥ऐं नमः। श्रीसोमसुंदरगुरूज्वलकीर्तिपूरः ।
श्रीवर्द्धमानजिन एष शिवाय वः स्तात् ।। भव्या भवंति सुखिनो यदुदाहृतं श्री
चारित्ररत्नममलं परिपालयंतः ॥१॥ श्रीरत्नशेखरगुरुप्रवरा जयंतु ।
नैकक्षमाधरनिषेद्य(व्य)पदारविंदाः॥ ऐदंयुगीनमुनिषु प्रवराक्रियेषु ।
श्रीसार्वभौमपदवीं दधते(s)धुना ये ॥२॥