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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
1785
Extent - 28 folios; 11 lines to a page; 40 letters to a line. Description - Country paper thin, tough and white; Jaina Devanagari
characters with rare पृष्ठमात्राs%3 big, perfectly legible, uniform and very good hand-writing; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin fol. 1a blank except that the title etc. written in pencil; fol. 28b blank; white pigment applied to some entry made there: in the centre of the numbered and unnumbered sides as well, there is some space kept blank so that it forms a design; edges of a few foll. gone; condition on the whole good; complete; yellow pigment hardly used; the last six lines written in a later and different hand; it deals with the good and bad
effects (?) of sneezing. Age - Not modern. Author - Kșemamkara Gani, pupil of Devasundara Sūri of the Tapā
gaccha. Subject - Narration about six types of persons. They are : Adhamā
dhama, Adhama, Vimadhyama, Madhyama, Uttama and Uttamottama. Cf षट्पुरुषचरित्र, an anonymous work with cr
without a comm. Begins — fol. 16
ए३०॥ श्री महंतश्चतुस्प्रिंशन्महातिशयशालिनः श्रीधर्मस्य प्रभावेन जयंति जगदुत्तमाः १ अर्थः कामश्च मोक्षश्च प्रवर्त्तते यतस्त्रयः। स श्रीधर्मः कथं न स्यात् करणीयः सदा नृणां २
इह तावत् समाने(5)पि पुरुषत्वे पूर्वोपार्जितशुभाशुभकर्मप्रकृतिपरिणामवशेन चतुः पुरुषार्थसाधनभेदात् षड्विधाः षुरुषाः भवंति तदयथा अधमा. धमा १ अधमाः २ विमध्यमाः ३ मध्यमा ४ उत्तमाः ५ उत्तमोत्तमाश्चेति ।
etc. Ends - fol. 270
श्रीम' त्तपो 'गणनभोंगणवर्यसूर्यश्रीदेवसुंदरगुरुप्रवरप्रसादात् क्षेमंकरोगणिवरःस्वपरोपकारहेतोश्चकार पुरुषाश्रयिणं विचारं २ छ
