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Description.- Country paper thick, rough and white; Deva någari
characters ; sufficiently big, perfectly legible, uniform and beautiful hand-writing; borders ruled in two lines and edges in one, in black ink; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin , fol. 96 blank; condition very good; both the text and its commentary complete so far as they go ; the former has the last verse numbered as 8; the last fol. seems to have been pressed against a wooden board having strings
attached to it at equal intervals. Age.- Not quite modern. Author of the text.- Not known. ,
, commentary.- Pārsvadeva Gani alias Sricandra Sūri. As regards this Gani, the following observations are made by Muni Catura vijayaji in his Sanskrit introduction (pp. 30–32 ) to Jaina-stotra-sandoha ( pr. I):
( 1 ) He is a pupil of Dhaneśvara Sûri of Candra kula.
( 2 ) He was named as Śricandra Sūri at the time he was made “Sūri ",3
(3) He assisted his guru in his composing a commentary on Saddhasayaga, in Vikrama Samvat 0171.
(4) He had a pupil named Purņacandra. (5) He is the author of :-- (3) 397fgraizaig ( Vol. XVII, pt. 3, No. 780 ) (२) चैत्यवन्दनसूत्रवृत्ति (3) TEENUSTIEUT V. S. 1227.
* (8) Fever reparatiegr (Vol. XVII, pt. 2, No. 620 ) (4) coraziaia (Vol. XVII, pt. i, No. 256 ) V. S. 1228. ( ) à sfrutrófiázTESTATIÊ (Vol. XVII, pt. 2, No.449) V. S. 1173(4). ( ) Forggatarier V. S. 1169 (C) gieter
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1 In the printed edition we have 9 verses. So this Mo, is lacking in the last verse of the text and its commentary, too.
2-3 See DOJM (Vol. XVII, pt. 5, p. 8, fn. 1)
