Descriptive Catalogue of Govt Collections of Manuscripts Part 3

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

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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
(1108.
विशेषावश्यकभाष्य
Višeşāvasykabhāşya वृत्तिसाहित
with vrtti No. 1108
1228
1884-87. Size.— 11 in. by 4 in. Extent.-- 440 folios ; 18 lines to a page ; 59 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper thin, brittle and grey; Devanāgari
characters with this ; bold, big, legible and elegant hand-writing ; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink; the space between the pairs coloured red; unnumbered sides have a small circular disc in red colour in the centre, whereas the numbered, in the two margins, also ; several foll. horribly damaged ; a piece of paper of the same size as the fol. pasted to fol. 1a; the second fol. badly torn in three pieces ; the third half torn; fol. 4, 122, 439 and 440 torn in two pieces ; foll. 5-110, 333 and 357-359 very badly damaged ; so they should be handled very carefully; strips of paper pasted to foll. 406, 42*, 469, 466, 47, 482, 499, 509, 51, 569, 59, 614, 64, 656, 76a, 804, 814, 82*, 93, 97", 10rb, and several other foll.; fol. 174 partly torn ; at times nos. for foll. worn out e. g. those of 201, 202 etc.; condition poor; foll. 365-367 also numbered as 1,
2 and 3 in the same margin. Age.-- Pretty old. Begins.—(text) fol. rb
Thayer etc. as in No. 1103. -(com.) fol. rb FAT HTTÈ stagratare il
fa fait etc. as in No. 1107. Ends.- (text) tol. 4398 T afhaal etc. up to Foot as in
No. 1107. Then the portion is worn out. -(com.) fol. 4400 stistae etc. up to frizia
as in No. 1107. This is followed by the line as under -