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MS. Sansk. d. 259

MSS. Sansk. d.

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Jñānasāgara’s Āvaśyakāvacūrṇi, A. D. 1402.

Contents

The Āvaśyakāvacūrṇi of Jñānasāgara, being an abridgement of Haribhadra’s commentary on the Āvaśyaka, for which see Weber, Catal

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: [1] namaḥ śrīsarvajñāya | prārabhyate ’yaṃ śrīāvaśyakānuyogaḥ | atra ca nirvighnaṃśāstrārtha-pāragamanādyarthaṃ maṃgalādini vācyāni | yady api cedam arhad uktavān sarvam api maṃgalaṃ tathāpi jñānapaṃcakarūpaṃ tat sūtrakṛd āha | ābhiº | arthābhimukho niyato hodho ’bhinibodhaḥ sa evābhinibodhikaṃ tac ca taj jñānaṃ cābhinibodhikajāānaṃ matijñānam ity arthaḥ |
Explicit: [50v] ācāryaśrīharibhadrakṛtavrttyanusāreṇa śrīāvaśyakāvacūriḥ samāptāḥ | saṃ 1458 (= a. d. 1402) varṣe vāº ravau | śrīmattapagaṇanabhogaṇabhā-skarābhaśrīdevasuṃdarasugottamapādukānāṃ śikṣair jināgamasudhāṃbudhilīnacittiḥ | śrījñānasāgaragurūtta-manāmadheyaiḥ ǁ 1 ǁ khāṣṭhiyugeṃdumite ’bde ’vacūrṇir Āvaśyakasya jayinīyaṃ | vidadhe vṛhadvivaraṇāt | śrutabhaktyā svaparahitahetoḥ ǁ 2 ǁ śrīāvaśyakāvacūrṇipraśasti |

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
Extent: iv + 50 + xxx
Dimensions (binding): 27.3 × 12.4 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī, Jaina style, very minute characters, which are sometimes difficult to read.

Jñānasāgara? See above.

History

Origin: A. D. 1402.

f. 50v: saṃ 1458 ⟨1402⟩ |

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzsch (MS. 403).

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1350, p. 210

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. 1350, p. 210

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