Syadwad Muktawali

Author(s): S A Upadhyay
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan

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SYĀDVĀDAMUKTĀVALI
OR JAINAVISESATARKA
OF ŚRĪ YAŠASVATSĀGARA
INTRODUCTION 1. The text of the Syädvādamuktavali (also known as Jainuvišesutarka), which is published here for the first time, is critically edited from the only extant manuscript, bearing no. 736/1899-1915, belonging to the Government Collections of Manuscripts deposited at the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona.!
II. The manuscript comprises three folios, each of the size 101" 7.4!". The paper of the manuscript is thin, country-made and yellowish grey in colour. The edges of all the three folios in the manuscript are slightly worn out. Besides three small holes, two slightly bigger holes are found in the upper right hand margin of the first folio. Few letters in the left hand part of the lines 2, 3 and 4 on folio 1 obverse have been rendered undecipherable as a result of three small bits of paper having got stuck fast thereon. On the whole, the condition of the manuscript is fairly good.
The edges of the folios are ruled by a single red line; and the borders of the text are marked by three red lines. The ruling is fairly uneven.
Pages 1a, 1b and 3a have fifteen lines each and page 3b, the last page, has only six lines. Each line has 38-41 letters.
1. Kapadia, H.R., Cat., Vol. XVIII, Part I, Poona, 1952, p. 11. Herein the details
of the MSS. are given as under: Size-10 in. by 4 in. Extent-3 folios, 14 to 15 lines to a page; 41 letters to a line. Description--Country paper thin and grey; Jaina Devanagari characters; small,
legible and very fair hand-writing, borders ruled in three lines and edges in one, in red ink; edges of the first two foll. slightly
worn out; condition good; complete so far as it goes. Age--Old.