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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
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प्रश्नगर्भ
Praśns garbbaपश्चपरमेष्ठिस्तव
Pañcapa ramesthista va (Quer
(Paņbagabbhaपञ्चपरमेडिथय)
Pañcaparametthithaya ) अवचूरि सहित
with avacūri
743 ( a ). No. 347
1892-95. Size. — 102 in. by 49 in. Extent.- (text) 1 folio ; 14 lines to a page ; 55 letters to a line.
, - (com. ), „; '33 » »» » ; 14 » »» » Description: Country paper thin, rough and white ; Jaina
Devanāgari characters with frequent qualis; this is a 92997 Ms.; the text written in small, quite legible, uniform and beautiful hand-writing; practically same is the case with the commentary except that it is written in smaller hand-writing ; borders ruled in three lines in red ink; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin ; the Ist fol. seems to have been numbered in a corner in the righthand margin ; but, now this number is not here, since edges of this foll. are more are less gone; even few letters are gone ; condition on the whole tolerably good; there is some space kept blank in the centre and eaah of the two margins in the case of unnumbered and numbered sides ; in the case of the former, the central place is decorated with a design in red colour ; both the text and its commentary complete ; both end on fol. 1; this Ms. contains an additional work viz. TAARTE #For with a commen
tary; this begins on fol. r* and ends on fol. rb. Age. - Fairly old. Author of the text.— Jayacandra Sūri. Is he same as Jayacandra
Sûri having the title of “Krşņasarasvati” and a pupil of Somasundara Suri of the Tapă goccha or is he that Jayacandra Suri of the Pursimā gaccha, guru of Bhāvacandra Sūri ( who composed Sảntināthacaritra in Vikrama Samvat 1535 )? If former, his additional works are :
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1-2 These refer to a column.