Uvangsuttani Part 04 - Ovayiam Raipaseniyam Jivajivabhigame

Author(s): Tulsi Acharya, Mahapragna Acharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati

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This Ms. belongs to Shrichand Ganeshdas Gadhaia Library, Sardarshahar. It contains 94 leaves and 188 pages with 15 lines in each page and 53-56 letters in each line. Its size is 131" x 5". It is beautifully scribed. The following is the eulogy at the end :
"Samvat 1575 varse äsvinamäse kṛṣṇapakṣe trayodaśyam tithau bhrguvasare pattananagaramadhye modhajatiya Jost vitthalasuta laṭakanalikhitam. yad sam pustake drstam, tādṛśam likhitam maya/yadi śuddhamaśuddham va mama doso na diyate /1/ subham bhavatu lekhaka-pathakayoḥ kalyanamastu. cha. cha. śrī. śri. cha. granthagra 5200.
() Original text: leaves 80.
This Ms. belongs to Sardarshahar mentioned above. It contains 80 leaves and 160 pages, with 15 lines in each page and nearly 61 letters in each line. Its size. 12" x 41". The Ms. is very old and tattered. The scribing year is not mentioned at the end, but most probably it must belong to the 16th century.
(T) Original text: leaves 90. Illustrated.
It belongs to Shrichand Ganeshdas Gadhaiya Library, Sardarshahar. It contains 90 leaves and 180 pages with 15 lines in each page and about 63 words per line. Its size is 11x4. On the first page there is beautiful illustration in golden ink of the image of the Tirthankaradeva. It is very beautifully scribed. In the centre there is bāvaḍī and in the middle of that there is a red circular spot.
There is no puspika and scribing year at the end of the ms, but most probably it belongs to the 16th century.
It almost tallies with the palmleaf manuscript and the commentary.
(ar) Palmleaf photo-print of Jaisalmer Bhandara.
This copy mostly tellies with the commentary. It does not contain the pages containing the sutras 105-115 of the third pratipatti.
(z) Scribing year 1800. It belongs to the Order's Library, Ladnun. It had been thoroughly studied by Acarya Kālūgaṇī (the eighth pontiff) and the text had been corrected by him at various places.
Jīvājīvābhigama tīkā (Hand-written)
It belongs to Shrichand Ganeshdas Gadhaiya Library, Sardarshahar. It contains 250 leaves, and 500 pages with 15 lines per page and about 65 letters per line. Its size is 10" x 4-1/4". The scribing year is samvat 1717. The script is very beautiful.
Acknowledgements
Jainisam has a long tradition of councils held for compiling the texts of the Agamas. Ere 1500 years from today there had been four councils on Agama. After Devarddhigani no well-plaaned Agama council was held. The Agamas