Notices of Sanskrit Manuscripts
by Rajendralala Mitra | 1871 | 921,688 words
These pages represent a detailed description of Sanskrit manuscripts housed in various libraries and collections around the world. Each notice typically includes the physical characteristics, provenance, script, and sometimes even summaries of the content of the Sanskrit manuscripts. The collection helps preserve and make accessible the vast herit...
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67 tal Translation Fund Series, and two lithographed editions are also available. It forms a part of the sacred scriptures of the Jains, and to point out its exact position in the body of those records it is necessary to give an outline of the classification usually adopted by the Jains in describing them. According to the Siddhanta-dharma-sara the Jain scriptures are comprised in fifty different works, collectively called the Sutras, and sometimes the Siddhantas, and classed, first, under the two heads of Kalpa Sutra and Agama, five works coming under the former, and forty-five under the latter head; and secondly, under eight different heads viz. I, 11 Angas; II, 12 Upangas; III, 4 Mula Sutras; IV, 5 Kalpa Sutras; V, 6 Chheddas; VI, 10 Payannas; VII, Nandi Sutra; and VIII Anuyogadvara Sutra. Some of them have a four-fold commentary under the names of Tika, Niryukti, Churni and Bhashya, and with the original constitutes the five-fold (panchanga) Sutra. The names of these fifty works are:- 1. Acharanga Sutra. 2. Sugadanga Sutra. 3. Bhananga Sutra. 4. Samavayanga Sutra. Jatadharmakatha Sutra. 5. Bhagavati Sutra. 6. 1. Upavayi Sutra. I. ANGAS. 7. Upasakadasa Sutra. 8. Antagadadasa Sutra. 9. Anuttarovavai Sutra. 10. Vipaka Sutra. 11. Prasnavyakarana Sutra. II. UPANGAS. 2. Rayapaseni Sutra. 3. Jivabhigama Sutra. 4. Pannavana Sutra. 5. Jambudvipapannatti Sutra. 6. Chandapannatti Sutra. 7. Surapannatti Sutra. 8. Niriyavali Sutra. 9. Kappiya Sutra. 10. Kappavadimsaya Sutra. 11. Puppiya Sutra. 12. Puppachuliya Sutra. MULA SUTRAS. 3. Dasavaikalika Sutra. 4. Pakshika Sutra. III. 1. Avasyaka Sutra. 2. Viseshavasyaka Sutra. IV. KALPA SUTRAS. 1. Uttaradhyayna Sutra. 2. Nisitha Sutra. 4. Vyavahara Sutra. 5. Jitakalpa Sutra. 3. Kalpa Sutra. K 2