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The Svetambara Narratives
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उपमितिभवप्रपश्चाकथा
Upamitibhavaprapañcakathā
7(a). No. 73
1880-81. Size.— 303 in. by 23 in. Extent.-- 178 leaves ; 5 to 7 lines to a leaf ; 122 to 137 letterss
to a line. Description. - Palm-leaf; Jaina Devanagari characters with
TEATTIS; bold, big, legible and elegant hand-writing ; leaves 16 and 2* written in five columns but the line begun in one goes to the , 2nd, 3rd, etc. till it gets 10 complete ; i. e. to say the columns are not independent; leaves 20 etc. divided into 3 columns only ; every column has its borders ruled in few lines in black ink ; space between the first and the second is equal in extent to that between the fourth and the fifth ; each of these is more 15 than double that between the 2nd and the 3rd or that between the 3rd and the 4th, which is equal to the former ; in every leaf there are two holes for stringing up the different leaves ; edges of many leaves slightly worn out; several leaves worm-eaten; numbers for leaves 20 entered twice: in the right-hand margin as 1, 2 etc. and in the left-hand margin as fa, fa, a, ut mostly as in the Ms. of 31131TETIO ( Vol. XVII, pt. 1, No. 9 ); red chalk used ; leaves 416, 42*, 836 and 84' more or less blotted out; leaves 42-47 & 95-101 more or less torn; 25 edges of leaves 59, 89 & 9o badly damaged ; a strip of . paper pasted to leaf 64"; half of the 119th leaf worr out; a quarter of the 169th leaf gone ; condition tolerably fair ;
incomplete ; the next Ms. ( No. 74 ) forms its counterpart. Age. - Fairly old.
30 Begins.-- leaf 1b 1 &011 JA: FATT II FA: QTALATII AA:
श्रुनदेवताये ॥
FAì fatalíŞTaAISTTATTATENEATHÌ etc. as in No. 71. Ends. - leaf 1786
ततो(s)सो वांतिसंमिश्रं तत्पुरःस्थितभोजनं ।
निर्लजो भोक्तुमारब्धः सर्वेषामपि पश्यतां ॥ . 13 [J. L. P.)
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