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640. Whatever of my composition be faulty in metre or meaning or words or scripturally deficient through error of delusion let it have no ill result.
641. The elephant; Susthita and the other holy men; the lion; the noble muni Metārya; Sukumālikā; the noble steer; the tame koil;
642. the ministers; the brahmin; Nāgadatta; the carpenter; Carabhați; the rustic; the lioness; the lion; Kāṣṭhamuni-these stories have been narrated in this order.
643. From an earlier narrative this Manipaticarita, attractive and easy to understand, has been compiled in verses in brief by Haribhadra Sūri.
644. In this Manipaticarita which is pregnant with meaning and has been composed concisely there are some six hundred sonorous verses.
645. In the course of the Vikrama year numbered nayanamuni-rudra (1172) on the fifth day of Bhadrapada this tale was completed.
646. As long as the sun and the moon and the star-adorned firmament and the sacred law of the Jina endure let the Manipaticarita give pleasure.
