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MS. Sansk. d. 327

MSS. Sansk. d.

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Devendrasūri’s Siddhapañcāśikāsūtrāvacūri, 17th or 18th cent.?

Contents

Summary of Contents: The Siddhapañcāśikāsūtrāvacūri, being a commentary in Sanskrit on the 50 Prākrit stanzas in praise of Siddhas, called Siddhapañcāśikā, by Devendrasūri

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: [1] siddhaṃ | siddhatthasuam iti | siddhāḥ pratiṣṭhitāḥ satyatvena kenāpy acālyā arthā jīvādipadārthāḥ | śrute dvādaśāṃgarūpe yasya sa siddhārthaśrutas taṃ | athavā siddhārthasya na yasya sutaṃ na vaṃdanaṃ ǁ 1 ǁ saṃtapayaº ǁ 2 ǁ ehi ºanaṃtarasiddhaṃti | na vidyate samayenāpy aṃtaraṃ vyavadhānaṃ yeṣāṃ te ’naṃtarāḥ siddhatvaprathamasamayavarttina ity arthaḥ | prākṛtatvāj jaso lopaḥ | satpadaprarūpaṇādravyapramāṇakṣetrasparśanākālāṃtarabhā-vālpabahutvarūpair aṣṭabhir anuyogadvāraiḥ paraṃparasiddhāvivakṣite prathame samaye yaḥ siddhas iasya yo dvitīyasamaye siddhaḥ sa paras tasyāpi yas tṛlīyasamayasiddhaḥ | sa para evam anye pi vācyāḥ |
Explicit: [4v] Deveṃdrasūriviracitasiddhapaṃcāsikāsūtrāracūriḥ | samāptaḥ | śrīr astu | cha |

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
Extent: iii + 4 + lxx
Dimensions (binding): 27.9 × 12.4 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī, Jaina style.

History

Origin: 17th or 18th cent.?

possibly about a. d. 1700, but may be later.

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzsch (MS. 477).

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1384, p. 226

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. 1384, p. 226

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