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Guṇabhadra’s Ātmānuśāsana, A. D. 1821.

Contents

The Ātmānuśāsana of Guṇabhadra, pupil of Jinasena, being a manual of Jaina metaphysics and ethics, with a commentary in Hindī

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: [1v] oṃ namaḥ | śiddhebhyaḥ | śrīvītarāgāya namaḥ | atha Ātmānuśāsanagraṃthakī bhāṣāṭīkā liṣyate |
Explicit: [104v] iti śrīātmānusāsanagraṃthabhāṣāvacanikā saṃpūraṇa samāptaṃ | graṃthā graṃthaślokasaṃkhyā 4200 |

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
Extent: ii + 104 + ii
Dimensions (binding): 34.9 × 17.8 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī, with some Jaina characteristics.

History

Origin: A. D. 1821.

f. 104v: saṃvat 1877 ⟨1821⟩ phālgunaśuklapakṣe titho 5 |

Provenance and Acquisition

The collection of Horace Hayman Wilson was purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1842.

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1375, p. 222

Availability

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Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    Moriz Winternitz and Arthur Berriedale Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1905), no. 1375, p. 222

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