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Metaphysics etc.: Svetambara works
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'औष्ट्रिक मतोत्सूत्रप्रदीपिका [ चामुण्डिकमतोत्सूत्रदीपिका ]
No. 302
Size.. 10 in. by 4 in.
Extent. 19 folios; 13 lines to a page; 48 letters to a line. Description. Country paper thin, rough and greyish; Jaina Devanagari characters with gears; sufficiently big, legible and good hand-writing; borders ruled in four lines in black ink; red chalk and yellow pigment used; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin; fol. 1a blank; edges of some of the foll. slightly worn out; condition on the whole good; complete; composed in Samvat 1617 in Šobhālayapura.
Age. Pretty old.
Author.
Austrikamatotsūtrapradipikā [ Camundikamatotsutra
dipikā 1
481
1117. 1887-91.
Upadhyāya Dharmasagara Gaņi, pupil of Anandavimala Süri. He flourished in the reign of Hiravijaya Sūri. See Peterson, Reports 1V, p. 102 where extracts from Nayaprakāśāṣṭaka with tika are given.
For additional works of this Gani see No. 183 (pp. 289-290).
॥ ६० ॥ श्रीविजयदान सूरिगुरुभ्यो नमः | स्वस्तिश्रीमंतमानंदज्ञानामृत पयोनिधिं ।
नत्वा संप्रति तीर्थेशं । श्रीमदूवीर जिनेश्वरं । १ ।
Subject. Refutation of Austrikamata i.e. an attack on some of the tenets of the followers of the Kharatara gaccha. The entire work is divided into four chapters known as adhikāras. The first deals with the origin of the name 'Austrika'. The second has for its subject refutation of this mata. Convincing of the misguided is the topic taken up in the third. And the fourth deals with what the adherents of this mata say about it.
Begins. fol. Ib
1 In Jinaratnakośa (Vol. I, p. 64) this work is alluded to as 3. मतोत्सूत्रोद्घाटनकुलक and उत्सूत्रखण्डन as well. The former containing 18 verses in Paiya is published along with an avacuri by the Agamodaya Samiti in A.D. 1927, Is this No. 302 its commentary?
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