Descriptive Catalogue of Govt Collections of Manuscripts Part 3

Author(s): Hiralal R Kapadia
Publisher: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute

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विशेषावश्यक भाष्य वृत्तिसहित
No. 1107
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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
Description.
Size. 12 in. by 42 in.
Extent. 407 212 = 406 folios; 17 lines to a page; 64
letters to a line.
Country paper thin and grey; Devanagari characters with quars; big, bold, beautiful and legible hand-writing; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink; space between the two pairs coloured red; red chalk used; a piece of paper of the same size as the fol. pasted to fol. 1a; same is the case with the 407b (last ) fol. ; unnumbered sides have a small circular disc in red colour in the centre, whereas the numbered, in the two margins also; small strips of paper pasted to foll. 2,5, 56 and 100; edges of the foll. 1-7, 19-20, 53, 115-120, 136, 117-150, 179, 203-211 and 391 more or less worn out; foll. 4 and 188 partly torn; fol. 245 badly burnt and foll. 56, 74, 100, 188 and 264 slightly; condition tolerably good; foll. 115 and 268 repeated; fol. 228 is lacking; fol. 278 etc. up to 399 seem to be mistaken for 378, 379 etc. up to 399; these wrongly numbered foll. 378,379 etc. and the rightly numbered foll. 300 etc up to 403 also numbered in the same margin as 1, 2 etc.; the 300th fol. is rightly numbered; the preceding, of course, wrongly numbered as 399; the fol. 331 also numbered as 332 and 333, the subsequent ones hence numbered as 334, 335 etc.
[1107.
Viseṣāvaśyakabhāṣya with vrtti
(text) fol. 1b
Age. Seems to be fairly old.
Author of the commentary- Maladharin Hemacandra Sūri, pupil of Abhayadeva Suri. For his works etc. see No. 1099.
Subject. The text along with its Sanskrit commentary.
Begins.
¶ etc. as in No. 1103.
1255.
1887-91.