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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
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Extent. 13-2-11 folios; 13 lines to a page; 40 letters to a line. Description. Country paper thick, rough and white; Jaina Devanagari characters; bold, big, perfectly legible and elegant hand-writing; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin ; borders ruled in three lines and edges in one, in red ink; foll. 8 and 9 lacking; otherwise complete; red chalk used; fol. 13b blank; the entire work is divided into eight paricchedas, the extent of each of which is as under :
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Age.-Somewhat old.
Author.- Vadin Deva Suri.
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He is the same person who is said to have defeated in Samvat 1181 Kumudacandra a Digambara saint at the court of King Jayasimha of Gujarat. See Mudritakumudacandraprakarana and Gurvavali (v. 74). Vädin Deva Suri is a pupil of Municandra, for whose works etc. see B. B. R. A. S. vols. III-IV, p. 424. The life-period of Vädin Deva Suri runs from Samvat 1143 to 1226. See Indian Antiquary vol. XI, p. 254.
Subjcct. The text containing about 374 sutras and expounding Jaina logic in Sanskrit.
रागद्वेषविजेतारं ज्ञातारं विश्ववस्तुनः ।
शक्रपूज्यं गिरामीशं तीर्थेशं स्मृतिमानये ॥ १ ॥
प्रमाणनयतस्त्वव्यवस्थापनार्थमिदमुपक्रम्यते १ स्वपरव्यसायिज्ञानं प्रमाणम् ॥ २
Ends. fol. 134 उभयोस्तत्त्वनिर्णिनीषुत्वे यावत्तत्वनिर्णयं यावत्स्फूर्ति च वाच्यम् २१
1 Foll. 8 and 9 are to be excluded.
