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30.5

MISCELLANEA.

oldest, containing the Vrihatkalpas àtra with its

PERSIAN STANZAS ON ATTRACTION AND

commentaries, is dated 1334 Vikrama, or 1278 A.D.

REPULSION.

It was written in Cambay, where it had been pre served until it came into my hands. The other manuscripts likewise came from that

Selected and translated by E. Rºhatsek, Esq., M.C.E. No. V. From the Mesnary of Jellál-al-dyn Tºny.-3rd Duffur.

town.

Copies of all the forty-five sacred works of the Jainas, with the exception of three very small

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treatises, have now been obtained, and Sanskrit

commentaries on most of them. Among this year's purchases the complete collection of the Pāini as or Prakiriakas (No. 141), the Pannāvanā with a commentary, the Nandi adhyayana with two commentaries, the commentary on the Jīā

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These

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commentaries, as well as several others, are parti cularly valuable, as their authors belong to the oldest and most esteemed exponents of Jaina

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