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Title

Pravacanasāroddhārasūtra
प्रवचनसारोद्धारसूत्र

Authors

• Nemicandrasūri, active 1072-1083

Other related names

• Kramrisch, Stella, 1898-1993, former owner

Call number

Ms. Indic 26
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9969932243503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/951433308
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6993224

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit and Gujarati

Summary

Work on Jaina doctrine (including cosmology, tīrthaṅkaras, siddhis, and asceticism), with an unknown line by line commentary in Gujarati between the lines of Sanskrit text. Manuscript contains a number of tables and paintings on Jain subjects, but also includes paintings typical of Rajasthan, such as a horse rider.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 150r).
   
• Written in 13-20 lines per leaf.
   
• 150 leaves foliated 1-150, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1709 (1652) (f. 150r).
   
• 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 quadruple black line.
   
• Formerly housed as Ms. Coll. 390, Item 3001.
   

Extent

1 item (150 leaves) : 12 x 26 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīpravacanasāroddhārasūtraṃ saṃ[vat] 1709 śrāvaṇavadi 7 ravaujālseradurgośreyo 'stu // (f. 150r).

Provenance

• Formerly owned by the art historian and University of Pennsylvania professor Stella Kramrisch and sold to the university on April 6, 1959 (notes accompanying manuscript).
   

Subjects topical

• Jainism--Early works to 1800
• Asceticism--Early works to 1800
• Tīrthaṅkaras--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Commentaries
• Treatises
• Tables (documents)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--17th century
• Manuscripts, Gujarati--17th century
• Manuscripts--India--17th century

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 37v-38r — Table, f. 37v
• fol. 71v-72r — Table, f. 71v
• fol. 78v-79r — Table, f. 78v
• fol. 100v-101r — Tables, f. 100v
• fol. 112v-113r — Tables, f. 112v and f. 113r
• fol. 123v-124r — Table, f. 123v
• fol. 142v-143r — Tables, f. 142v
• fol. 143v-144r — Tables, f. 143v

Decorations

• fol. 1v-2r — Illustration, f. 1v
• fol. 54v-55r — Illustration, f. 54v
• fol. 59v-60r — Diagram, f. 60r
• fol. 63v-64r — Diagram, f. 63v
• fol. 64v-65r — Diagram, f. 64v
• fol. 76v-77r — Illustration and Table, f. 77r
• fol. 80v-81r — Illustration, f. 81r
• fol. 83v-84r — Table, f. 83v; Illustration, f. 84r
• fol. 132v-133r — Diagram, f. 133r
• fol. 134v-135r — Illustration, f. 135r
• fol. 136v-137r — Illustration and diagram, f. 137r
• fol. 137v-138r — Illustration and diagram, f. 138r