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Title

Other related names

• Gaṇivijayasāgara, scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962195703503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/880982976
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6219570

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Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation, study, and recitation, and relates poetic myths about Tirthaṅkaras, legendary Jain figures, typically from the mythological past. Diamond-shaped yantra (diagram) housing Sanskrit characters from the main text, at the center of each folio.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 35v).
   
• Written in 15 lines per leaf.
   
• 35 leaves foliated 1-35, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Scribe is Gaṇivijayasāgara, student of Prītisāgara (f. 35v).
   
• Dated saṃvat 1739 (1683) (f. 35v).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with triple red line.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Jainism
• Tīrthaṅkaras
• Jaina mythology
• Sanskrit literature
• Yantras

Genres

• Poems
• Diagrams
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--17th century
• Manuscripts--India--17th century

Licenses

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