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MS. Sansk. d. 297

MSS. Sansk. d.

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Yogīndradeva’s Paramātmaprakāśa, with a Commentary, 17th cent.?

Contents

Summary of Contents: The Paramātmaprakāśa of Yogīndradeva, a Digambara Jaina work, in 346 verses, on the Jaina system, with an anonymous Sanskrit commentary

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: [1v] siddhiḥ | oṃ namo vītarāgāya | cidānaṃdaikarūpāya jināya paramātmane | paramātmaprakāśāya nītyaṃ siddhātmane namaḥ ǁ śrīyogeṃdradevakṛtaparamātmaprakāśābhidhāne dohakachaṃdograṃthe prakṣepakān vihāya vyākhyānārthaṃ adhikāraśuddhi kathyate | tad yathā | prathamatas tāvat paṃcaparameṣṭinamaskāramukhyatvena | cha | je jāyā jhāṇaggiyae ityādisaptadohakasūtrāṇi bhavaṃti ǁ 17 ǁ tadanaṃtaraṃ vijñāpanamukhyatayā | &c.

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
Extent: iii + 180 + ii. Really 198 leaves, as ff. 27, 76 are doubled; f. 37 is numbered 37, 38; and ff. 133, 134, 136, 145, 146, 162, 164, 165, 166, 168, 171, 173–177, 179 are split, and so are double.
Dimensions (binding): 26.7 × 13.0 cm.

Condition

a leaf is missing at the end; a corner of f. 92v is lost. The MS. has suffered from abrasion.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī, Jaina style.

History

Origin: 17th cent.?

perhaps the end of the 17 th century, but it may be later.

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzsch (MS. 446).

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1374, pp. 221-222

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. 1374, pp. 221-222

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