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Illustrated Manuscripts on Paper
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456. KALPASŪTRA, LD. No. 4561 K), folios 130, size 26x11 cms.;
copied by Mantri Vachaka of Pātana in V. S. 1547 (A. D. 1460) under the patronage of a någara named Ambā of Vadanagara. Ref. Moti Chandra and U. P. Shah, op. cit., pp. 20 f. colour plate IV B; Pandita Amritlal Mohanlal Bhojak, 'SHRI MAHAVIRA JAIN VIDYĀLAYA SUVARNA MAHOTSAVA GRANTHA
(Bombay, 1968), pp. 78 ff. 457. UTTARĀDHYAYANASŪTRA, DB. No. 49, folios 78, size
26-2x11.2 cms.; copied in V. S. 1555 (A. D. 1498 ) at Mandapa
durga (Mandu). It has 37 illustrations. 458. VIJAYACANDAKEVALĪCARITRA (P.) of Viradeva, LD. No.
9962, folios 95, size 29.5x11 cms.; copied in V. S. 1556 (A. D. 1499) at Śrīpattana. It has 36 illustrations.
459. KALPASŪTRA of Bhadrabahu, DB. No, 2991, folios 145, size
3.5x11.8 cms.; copied in V. S. 1560 (A. D. 1503) at Allāvala.
pura. Illustrated. 460. KALPASŪTRA of Bhadrabahu, ASB. folios 244, size 26x11
cms. It was copied at Śrī Pattan (Pāțaņa) in V. S. 1569 (A. D. 1512). It has 59 illustrations out of which 2 are fullpage illustrations.
The manuscript has been referred to in NEW DOCUMENTS
OF JAINA PAINTING, p. 57 and colour plate VI. 461. NIRAYĀVALIKĀ-VRTTI in Sanskrit by Śrīcandrasūri, HJP.
No. 14861, folios 12, size 13.5"x5.3". It was composed in V. S. 1228 and copied in V. S. 1571 (A. D. 1514); the first folio
is illustrated. BHAGAVATĪSŪTRA-CŪRNI by Jinadasa (?) in Prakrit, DA.
No. 50, folios 335, copied in V. S. 1582 (A. D. 1525). It has illustrations on folio nos. 1 and 335.
Few manuscripts of commentaries of Jaina Āgamas are found illustrated. When illustrated they generally give in the beginning miniatures of a Tirthankara with full parikara, and sometimes
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