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consists of 19 folios. Each side of the folios contains 17 lines and each line contains 56 to 60 letters. Keeping blank space in the middle of five lines at the centre of each folio the copyist has formed a design. Its size is 26.5 x 11.5 cms. In the Catalogue of the Institute it is given No. 10516. Its condition is good and its script is excellent.
-- This manuscript belonging to the Śrī-Samgha JainaJñānabhaņdāra preserved in the Hemacandrācārya Jaina Jñanamandira is written in V.S. 1464. In the Catalogue of the Jñānamandir, it is given No. 3417. Its condition is good, its script is excellent and its size is 8" x 31". It has 33 folios. Folios 1-16 and 32-33 have 13 lines on each side, while folios 17-31 have 12 lines on each side. Each line contains 46 to 50 letters. To give rise to blank design, the copyist has kept blank the middle portion of the four lines at the centre of each folio.
to — This manuscript belongs to the Modi-Jaina Jñāna. bhandāra preserved in the above-mentioned Jñanamandira. It consists of 25 folios. The first side of the first folio is blank. The text of the tract ends in the second side of the last folio. Each side of a folio has 15 lines and each line has 46 to 52 letters. Keeping blank space in the middle of the five lines at the centre of each folio the copyist has formed a blank design. In the centres of these blank designs he has drawn quadrangles by yellow pigment. Moreover, he has drawn yellow designs in the right and the left margins of the second side of each folio. There is a beautiful picture of Samavasarana on the second side of the first folio. At the end we find neither a colophon nor the mention of the date of the manuscript. But we can infer from the script that it belongs to the 16th century V.S. Its size is 13/" x 5". In the Catalogue of the Jñanamandir it is listed under No. 10091.
3. Pajjartärähanā — The text of this tract is corrected and critically edited on the basis of three paper manuscripts. We describe them as follows.
Jo -- Muni Shri Punyavijayaji got prepared a copy of this tract on the basis of this manuscript belonging to the Vijayadevasūri Collection preserved in the L.D. Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad. And he corrected the text of this tract on the basis of this manuscript alone. The manuscript is listed under No. 9825 in the Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Institute. The title of the tract, as mentioned in the first gāthā, is 'Ārähanāsára', whereas the last gātha mentions 'Pajjartärāhanā' as its title. Yet having writ
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