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DASAVEALIYA SUTTA
Abhechand Jain Sangha, Bhavnagar was chosen as representing the Bhavnagar collection. The manuscript is fairly legible with many scribal errors and omissionsand is characterized by and endings. There is no date given and there are not written the Chūlikās. Ms. of Jesalmere (dated Samvat 1643, Friday Aṣāḍha Śuddha 5) with a in Gujarati written by Rājahamsa Mahopādhyāya, the pupil of the जिनराजसूरि of खरतरगच्छ, was selected to represent the northern Mss. The manuscript is. a good and reliable one, corrected possibly by some teacher with yellow pigment. It has got no Chulikās written. Ms.
is also an old manuscript (dated Samvat 1653, Sunday Bhadrapad Vad 1) stated to be written at Stambhatirtha (modern Cambay). The manuscript is correct and legible. This manuscript gives the two Appendix chapters. Ms.T with दीपिका in Sanskrit is slightly different from ख. Ms. घwas chosen to represent the manuscripts at the Bhandarkar Oriental research Institute, Poona. It bears Samvat 1515 and Saka 1377 as its date. The discrepancy between the Śaka and the Samvat numbers can be settled with the help of the remark बहुधान्यसंवत्सरे श्रावण शुद्ध ७ सोमदिने लिखितं found at the end. It has the Chulikās at the end; and a Sanskrit gloss. Two other Mss. at the Institute bear Samvat 1492 and 1663 as their dates while the others bear no date. Ms. represents the Ahmedabad collection at the Dehlā Upāśraya, which appears te be very old although no date is given therein. It is a very reliable manuscript which has got the two Chulikās. It is the Ms. on which the present edition has been mainly based.
Gujarat College,
Ahmedabad.
March 1st 1932.
K. V. Abhyankar, M.A., Professor of Sanskrit and Ardha-magadhi, Gujarat College.
