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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
The writing is fairly legible but
The condition of the Ms. is fairly good. generally incorrect.
Though the last trabandha is not catcd, the post-colophon entry at the close of the first prabandha viz. the Jaguddeva-prabandha states that it was written on Thursday, the filth day of the dark half of the month of Gailta in the Samval year 1405 (c. A, D. 1409):
"go $$* 497 part 1 : " (Fol. 1", last line). Moreover, the whole Ms. is written in one hand. The Ms., therefore, must be regarded as dated V.S. 1463 (C. A. D. 1409).
The fact Uiat only the first prabandha bears the date of copying need not raise any doult regarding the completeness of the Ms. For, although the close of the second prabandha is marked by the following colophon and postcoloplon entry :
"1121 TEZHIHERITT24: :
2 l: : gai i40 227954: " and is at the same time followed by as many as eight prabandhas and only a similar benediction closes the tenth or the last prabandha, it has to be pointed out that the completion of the work is indicated by a Prāktit verse that stands the last; vide:
117 11 012122291afaju: J A sa 17 : ) Sant
rrar faza gra d a ! सहडाप समिअग्गे महिलाण पयोहरे लाठी ।। १॥ श्रीः ॥
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This codex belongs to the Pravartaka Kāntivijayaji Collection of the Atmānanda Jaina Jūānamandira, BARODA bearing no. 2356. Though undated, it appears to be about 200 years old. It is written in Devanagari characters on paper, 10.3 X 4.4 inches in size, with the sido-margins of 3,6" each and a space of 0.1 left out at the top as well as the bottom. The margins are ruled in double black lines.
This coxlex contains only one of the pravardhas viz., the Niadanabhramamaharijaprabundha and consists of one folio, witli 36 lines in all and about 63 letters to a line, Llie folio bcir.g unnumbered. Both the pages bave a decorative space of the shape of a l'ediki or a sacrificial altar of thirteen padas left out in the middle, its minimum measurement being 0.3" and maximum 1,3", and only four letters are written in the four directions within the same,
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