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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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BHĀVASAPTATIKA
the title as Bhāvasaptaţikā. Jinaratnakośa gives the title as Saptatikā.
The stanzas are composed in the anustubh and the indravraja metres.
The text, as indicated by the title, consists of seventy verses. The verse No. 71 gives the date of the composition of the work. Both BORI and LD2 refer to this work as consisting of seventy-two verses (dvāsaptatikā) in the colophon. The BORI numbers the last verse as 72 and the LD2 as 70. This, obviously, is quite strange. In the BORI No. 7 is repeated and Nos. 13 and 66 are omitted. In the LD2, as shown in the foot-note, stanzas 57 and 58 are combined into one stanza which is shown as No. 57 in the MSS. Thus if the error in numbering is rectified, all the three MSS. will have seventy-one verses only.
In the edited text, the insertion of the avagraha sign, the uni. formity in marking the danda, etc. are observed to make the text readable. Emendations are suggested in the round brackets and additions in the rectangular brackets, at the respective places.
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