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Kalpa-sutra and Kalaka-katha manuscript dated Samvat 14031346 A. D., in the Collections of Muni Sri Punyavijayaji
Paper, Size: 28 x 8.5 cm. Six lines on each page.
Total folios 132.
On folio 132 A, we have an entry in the margin, perhaps by another hand: Samvat 1403 (V. S. 14031346 A. D.); on folio 99b, where the text of the Kalpa-sutra ends, we have in lower margin, the following inscription :- श्री विक्रम संवत् ५०५ वर्षे श्रीमहावीरचित्को प्रतिरिय (यं) मुक्ता
fat which means that in the year 1505 of the Vikrama Era, this manuscript was deposited in the Mahavira Bhaṇḍāra.
This means that the manuscript was written and illustrated at an earlier date and that somebody had purchased this manuscript. in Samvat 1505 (1448 A. D.) and deposited in the Mahavira Library (Citkosa). Perhaps the real date of the manuscript appears in the Iower margin of folio 132b as Samvat 1403 (=1346 A. D.) and the possibility is that the last folio of this manuscript which might have. contained an elaborate description of the original donor, provenance, date, etc. was perhaps mutilated and that somebody had added the inscription (on folio 132b) to preserve the date before the mutilated. page was lost.
There is a possibility that this later addition of the date was made when the last page which perhaps contained the Prasasti of the donor disintegrated. That the date is not forged is apparent from the
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