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Title

Collection of Jain scripture

Call number

Ms. Indic 20
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9969932213503681
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6993221

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

In Sanskrit and Hindi

Summary

Collection of various works from Jain literary and canonical works in Sanskrit, Hindi, and other languages, possibly copied by a student or for use as a portable collection of Jaina scripture for personal reflection, study, and prayer. Contains various tables along with a drawing of a Jina (tīrthaṅkara) on the cover.

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 8-17 lines per leaf.
   
• 114 leaves foliated 1-44, 44-113, upper left verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   
• Canvas cover reinforced with paper and bound as a western codex.
   

Extent

1 16 x 13 cm

Support

Paper

Subjects topical

• Jainism
• Tīrthaṅkaras

Genres

• Prayers
• Treatises
• Drawings (visual works)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 2v — Table, f. 2v
• fol. 3r — Table, f. 3r
• fol. 3v — Table, f. 3v
• fol. 4r — Table, f. 4r
• fol. 89r — Pages blank from f. 89r

Decorations

• Front matter 1 recto — Floral border
• fol. 14v — Diagram, f. 14v
• fol. 15r — Diagram, f. 15r