Prashamratiprakaran

Author(s): Umaswati, Umaswami, Yajneshwar S Shastri
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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DESCRIPTION OF MANUSCRIPTS
The present edition of the Praśamaratiprakaraṇa is based on the following 10 Mss. :
A.1 This is the best and oldest palm-leaf Ms. with Haribhadra's commentary labelled as 9pfa 8 79. written in V.S. 1298 = 1241 A.D. found in Hemacandrācārya Jñāna Bhandar, Patan, No-68-1. It has 192 folios (leaves) containing 3-4 lines per page and 55 60 words in a line. The size of each page is about 35.5 X 3.7 C. M. It is in very good condition. It is written in black ink in Devanagari characters. Double strokes are used to show the end of each verse. The speciality of this Ms. is that it mentions 'Granthāgra' after every hundred and verse numbers and granthāgra are marked with red colour (geru). On the right side of the palm-leaf, page numbers are given in Devanāgari and on the left side aia 1997 B F1 numbers are mentioned. This Ms. is writtn in two parts (Khanda). In the middle of the Ms. there is a hole to tie the Ms. The last leaf is a little torn and piece of paper is pasted on it.
In this Ms. chapter numbers are not regularly mentioned. The Copyist was not very serious about mentioning numbers of chapters. After the end of each chapter, some times, he is regular and some times mentions two to four chapters collectively. For example, after verse 227 he mentions fa 1-(39919 ) 19 Toftegia 611 17:' | Again, the scriber is careless in putting verse numbers. On account of copyist's mistake, at the end of the Ms. we find a total of 315 verses, but actually there are only 313. Instead of putting 274, he numbered 275, and in place of 303, he puts 304. Total mentioned Granthāgra of this Ms. is 1800.
This Ms., begins with : नमो वीतरागाय । उदयस्थितमरुणकर दिनकरमिव केवलालोकम् । fafa6aa3:1 do acto enlara I... and ends with : प्रशमरतिवृस्तिः समाप्ता । The colophon which gives the date of the Ms., runs like this : सं. १२९८ कार्तिक सुदि द. १० बुधवारे प्रशमरति पुस्तिका लिखितेति ।
A.2 This is a published Ms. along with Haribhadra's commentary in
pothi form, published by Jivachand Sakerchand Javeri, for the Seth Devachand Lalbhai Jain Pustakoddhar Fund Series No. 88 at Surat, in