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Description: [1] MS in Jain Prakrit and Old Gujaranti on paper, Rupnagar, Rajastan, India, 1666, 76 ff. (-16 ff.), 11x25 cm, single column, (10x22 cm), 4 lines main text, 2-4 lines of interlinear commentary for each text line, in Jain Devanagari book script, filled with red and yellow, 17 paintings in colours mostly of Svetambara monks influenced by the Mughal style. The text is a Prakrit didactic work of how best to live a proper Jain life, aimed probably at the laity. The Svetambara pontiff Sri Dharmadasagaî lived mid 6th c. The Old Gujarati prose commentary was written in 1487. The colophon gives the place and date, and the name of the religious leader Sri Namdalalaji on whose order the work was transcribed.
Title: Upadesamala2
Credit: http://www.schoyencollection.com/religions_files/ms4466a.jpg
Author: Art from 17th c manuscript
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