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JAINA LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY
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A. AGAMIKA LITERATURE
आचाराङ्गसूत्र (आयारंगसुत्त)
I. 11 ANGAS
THE FIRST ANGA
Acārāngasūtra (Ayarangasutta)
152. 1871-72.
No. 1
Size. 11 in. by 4 in. Extent. 73 folios; 13 lines to a page; 44 letters to a line. Description.-Country paper, thin, rough and grey; Devanagari characters with gears; big, bold, beautiful and legible handwriting; borders ruled in four lines in black ink; space between the pairs coloured red; folios numbered in the right-hand margin only; the unnumbered sides marked with one small circular disc in the centre, the numbered having two more, one in each margin; folio ra decorated with a diagram in red colour; red chalk and yellow pigment used; edges of the first folio slightly worn out; several folios wormeaten to a smaller or greater degree; condition tolerably fair; complete; extent 2644 slokas.
Age. Not later than Samvat 1713.
Author. Sudharmasvamin, the 5th Gaṇadhara; for, according to the Jaina tradition he is the author of the 11 angas available at present.
Subject. This work written in Prakrit is divided into two śrutaskandhas, the former having 8 adhyayanas and the latter 16. Formerly there were 9 adhyayanas of the first śrutaskandha; but the 7th has been lost long ago. This work
