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चतुर्विंशतिजिनस्तंवन
No. 144
Size.7 in. by 4 in.
Extent. 3 folios; 14 lines to a page; 29 letters to a line. Description. Country paper thin, tough and greyish ; Jaina Devanagari characters with frequent qes; big, bold, quite legible, uniform and beautiful hand-writing; borders ruled in four lines in black ink; a part of the first line, numbers for the verses, their dandas and about two lines from the end written in red ink; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin; small bits of paper pasted to fol. 1, 2 and 3*; condition on the whole very good; complete; 25 verses in all.
Age. Pretty old.
Author. Not mentioned.
Subject. A hymn in 25 verses in Sanskrit wherein all the 24 Tirthankaras of this Hunda avasarpini are praised in 'Vastu metre. All the verses and most of their feet, too, are in "sṛnkhala-baddha" yamaka.
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Caturvimśatijinasta vana
Hymnology: Svetambara works
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प्रथमजिनवर ! प्रथमजिनवर ! निखिलनरनाथासेवितपदकमल ! कमल बंधुबंधुरमहोदय ! दययोद्धृत भीमभवरूपपगतलोकसमुदय ! दयमानश्रियसुसमताममलचरित्र पवित्र !
faztaifuogita ! su au fa:scofas ! || gu मित्रभासुर ! मित्रभासुर ! जय श्री अजित ! विजयाजितशत्रुभव ! भुवनदूरिततमोभर !
1 Hemacandra Suri has defined "Vastuka "metra in Chando'nusasana as under:
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बोलान्तती चौ तो वस्तुकम् ॥ ५-२४ ॥ "
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2 This may remind one of Suyagada (I, 15). See my work A History of the Canonical Literature of the Jainas (p. 120) and Agamonum Digdarsana p. 65),
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