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text. Weber says that these are only 264 gāthas in the text. Our manuscript is found to contain ::
जंबूद्दी पहिगारो पडमो समतो || १ ||
16B.
( 199 gāthās). Then a gāthā numbered 100 introduced by the words तज्जएक, वेदमेतसंग्रहगाथा अत्र कथयति ; 19B इति जीवासंग्रहगाथा, 7 verses ; 20B इति धनुपृष्ठवाहुसंग्रहगाथा, 11 verses; 21B इति घनगणित संग्रहगाथा, 7 verses, इति लघुक्षेत्रसमासे विरल जंबूद्वीप प्रथमोऽधिकारः लवण समुदाहिगारो वीऊ भणइ – 28A, the last Colophon given above, 69 gāthās.
For the author, his date and his school see the "Index of authors" attached to the 4th report of Peterson. The author received valuable garments from Firoj Sha- Tughlak ( 1351 to 1388 A.D.).
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लघुक्षेत्र समास (Laghu-ksetra-samāsa)
By Somatilakasūri
Substance: Country-made paper, 10 x 4 inches. Folia, 12. Lines, 18 on a page. Extent in slokas, 800. Character, Jaina nāgarī of the XVIIIth century. Appearance, fresh. Complete.
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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On Jaina Cosmography.
For a work of the same title by a different author see W. 1940. The Mangalacarana and the object of the work :सिरिनिलयं केवलिणं अवितहवयणं नमितु वीरजिणं । नरखितवियारयणं वृच्छामि सुआ उसपरहियं ।।
हय नखित्तविआरो सोमतिलयसूरिणा समासेण । लिहिउ परे सहित सोहे आव्वा सुमहारहि ||
Colophon : इति तपाश्रीसोमतिलकसूरिविरचितो काव्यक्षेत्र समासः । संपूर्ण ॥
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1302 लघुक्षेत्र समासविवरणम्
(Laghu-kşetra-samāsa-vivaranam)
by Ratnasekharācārya
Substance : Country-made paper, 10 x 41 inches. Folia 43 of which 1-6 leaves are missing. Lines 15 on a page, extent in slokas 2200. Character, Nagari. Date 1532 samvat. Appearance, old. Complete.
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