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INTRODUCTION
The copyist has not mentioned the year in which he prepared this copy. But on the basis of the characteristics of the script we can assign it to the 13th Century V.S.
This is a palm-leaf manuscript belonging to the Acārya Śrī Jinabhadrasūri Jaina Jñāna Bhaṇḍāra, Jesalmer. It is numbered 146 in the New Catalogue published by the L.D. Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad. Some folios are missing. The manuscript is incomplete. It contains eight out of twenty Prakīrņakasūtras printed in this part. They are as follows: 1 Catuḥsaranaprakirnaka (Kusalāņubamdhiajjhayana), 2 Aturapratyākhyānaprakīrņaka (16th in this work), 3 Bhaktaparijñāprakīrņaka, 4 Samstarakaprakīrṇaka, 5 Gacchācāraprakirṇaka, 6 Maraṇavidhiprakirnaka (Maraṇavibhattipainnaya), 7 Gaṇividyaprakīrṇaka, 8 Camdravedhyakaprakīrnaka, 9 Catuḥsaraṇaprakirnaka incomplete (this tract is the same as the one that is found in the beginning of the manuscript). Folios after No. 118 are not available. Folios No. 4, 8, 12, 32, 36, 39, 42, 44, 57, 67, 70 to 73, 76, 79, 80, 101 to 105 and 114 are missing. The manuscript is written in c. 15th Cent. V.S. Its condition is good and its script is legible. Its size is 15" x 2".
This manuscript belongs to the Munibhagavanta Śrī Hamsavijayaji Collection preserved in the Sri Atmārāmaji Jaina Jñāna Mandira, Baroda. It contains 18 tracts. But the tract having the title Kusalāṇubamdhiajjhayana has been written twice. So, in fact it contains 17 tracts only. Of these 17 tracts, three tracts, viz. Pudgalaparavartasvarupa, Samsattanijjutti, Ajivakappo are not accepted and included in our edition. That is, only 14 tracts of this manuscripts are utilised in the preparation of the present Volume Painṇayasuttaim'. The manuscript consists of 60 folios. The script is legible and beautiful. Its condition is good. The size is 34 x 14.5 cms. The first side of the first folio is blank. The tract named Saravali ends in the fifth line of the second side of folio No. 60. After that, there is no colophon of the scribe. On the basis of the characteristics of the script we may well assign it to the 16th Cent. V.S. Each side of the folios 1-28 contains 17 lines, whereas each side of the folios 29-60 contains 19 lines. And each line in folios 1-28 contains 51 to 59 letters whereas each line in folios 29-60 contains 61 to 67 letters. The entire manuscript is written by one person only. The tracts in the manuscript are as follows: 1 Titthogali, 2 Cattārimamgalasutta, 3 Kusalāṇubaṁdhiajjhayaṇa, 4 Virabhadrācāryakṛta Aurapaccakkhāna, 5 Bhattaparinnā, 6 Samtharagapainnaya 7 Tamdulaveyāliyapainnaya, 8 Caṁdāvijjhaya, 9 Devimdatthao, 10 Gana(i)vijjāpainnaya, 11 Mahāpaccakkhāṇam, 12 Viratthao, 13 Pudgalaparavartasvarūpaṁ, 14. Samsattanijjutti, 15
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