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2. While reading the Thananga. I came across-in Tthana 4, uddeasa 2, page 233-a line very interesting on pustakas. गंडी कच्छवि मुट्ठी संपुड फलए तहा छिवाडीय । एवं पोत्थय पणगं पन्नत्तं वीयरागेहिं ॥१॥ बाहलपुहत्तेहिं गंडी पोत्थो उ तुल्लओ दीहो । कच्छवि अंते तणुओ मज्झे पिहलो मुणेयन्वो ॥२॥ चउरंगुल दीहो वा वट्टागिति मुट्ठिपोत्थओ अहवा । चउरंगुलदीहोच्चिय चउरंसो होइ विन्नेओ ॥ ३ ॥ संपुडगो दुगमाइ फलगा वोच्छं छिवाडित्ताहे । तणुपत्तूसियरूवा होइ छिवाडी बुहा बॅति ॥४॥ दीहो वा हस्सो वा जो पिहलो होइ अप्पबाहल्लो । तं मुणियसमयसारा छिवाडिपोत्थं भणंतीह ॥५॥
Can something more definite be known about those five sizes of pustaka ? Are they still in use and the names still heard ? and particularly about Samuta, Samputaka, which is explained as दुगमाई फलगा, two boards or does it mean two boards on the inner face of which something is written while the outer face does as a cover ?
3. In the preface to his edition of Shree Apabhamsa works of Jinadattasuri, Gaikwad's Oriental No. XXXVII, Pandit Lalchandra Bhagwandas Gandhi quotes very interesting extracts from a Kuvalayamala preserved in the Jain Library at Jaisalmer. Can you induece this Pandit who looks an excellent scholar to edit the text or at least to give a full analysis with many extracts ?
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