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faina Literature and Philosophy
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Description.- Country paper thin, tough and white; Jaina Deva
någari characters with occasional grata; small, quite legible, uniform and very good hand-writing ; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink; red chalk rarely used; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin; there is some space kept blank in the centre of the numbered and the unnumbered sides as well so that it forms a design ; foll. 1-87 missing ; so this Ms. begins abruptly with the portion of the fifth sarga of the first parvan;' it however, goes up to the end of the 13th canto of the toth parvan ; the numbers of the sargas in each of the ten parvans are as under :
6, 6, 8, 7, 5, 8, 13, 12, 4 & 13. In all there are 82 cantos.
This Ms. contains an additional work viz. aitistega which begins on fol. 646* and ends on fol. 715.
Extents of the first and tbe last parvans are so17 &
5250 šlokas respectively. Age. — Not modern. Author.- Kalikalasarvajña' Hemacandra Súri. For a list of his
works see B. B. R. A. S. (Vols. III-IV, p. 438 ) and
DCGCM (Vol. XVII, pl. 4, pp. 154-156). Subject.- A biography of 163 towering personalities :-?24 Tirthan.
karas, 12 Sovereigns ( Cakravartins), 9 Vasudevas, 9 Balarāmas and 9 Prativāsudevas. The contents of the ten parvans are as under :
Parvan I Life of Rşabha and that of Bharata. , II , Ajita , , , Sagara. III Lives of Sambhava to Sitala i. e. to say
those of 8 Tirthařkaras : Lives of Tirthankaras, 2 Cakravartins, s Vasudevas and s Balaramas. ::
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1 The first parvan is lacking in the first four sargas and a portion of
the fifth.
3. Tirthankaras'16-18 are Cakravartins, too. They are counted separately; 35 otherwise the number will be 60.
