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E: 103 x 44 inches; foll. 10 with about 22 lines to a page.
The ms. is written in small clear handwriting ; it wholly drops the Sūtras, but contains about three-fourth of the
Svopajña Tikā and illustrations. No. 1645. F: 104 x 44 inches ; foll. 20 with about 20 lines to a page.
The ms. is dated Sam. 1481 and contains all the Sūtras
and a very brief Avacūri in a few places. G: 104 x 41 inches; foll.4 with about 18 lines to a page. The
ms. contains only the Sūtras and belongs to Shri Sanghano
Bhaņdāra, No. 90/2304. H: 104 x 41 inches : foll.4 to 9 only with about 29 lines to a
page. It contains all the Sūtras and a brief Avacūri. It is dated Sam. 1490 and belongs to Sangha Bhaņdāra.
No. 90/2307. N: This is the printed edition of the work; as explained in
its preface, it is based upon a single ms. Published by
Devakaran Mulchand, Bombay, 1912. P: This is a photo-copy of a palm-leaf ms. preserved at:
Patan and containing 123 folios; it has a few marginal
notes in Sanskrit. S: 10 x 41 inches; foll. about 60. The ms. belongs to the
Jainānanda Jñānabhaņdāra, Gopipura, Surat No. 322. K: For the Paryāya commentory which I have published, I
have used two mss. One belongs to the Bombay University and the other to Shri Muni Jinavijayaji himself. The former has 46 folios with about 13 lines to a page and is dated Sam. 1659, while the latter has 37
folios with about 15 lines to a page. Kd: In the 4th Adhyāya I have sometimes given the variants
found in the Kavidarpaņa, which I have recently reedited in the Rajasthan Puratana Granthamala, 1960.
Bombay, 26th August 1960.
H. D. Velankar.
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