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240.] Hymnology : Svetambara works
261 Description.- Country paper thin, tough and white; Jaina Deva
nāgari characters with occasional quaEIS ; small, perfectly legible, uniform and beautiful hand-writing ; borders ruled in four lines in black ink ; red chalk used ; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin ; condition very good except that 5 edges of few foll: are slightly gone; there is some space kept blank in the centre of the numbered and unnumbered sides as well ; both the text and the commentary complete ;
the last verse of the former numbered as 111. Age.- Pretty old. Author of the commentary.- Not mentioned. Subject.- A metrical composition in Präkrit along with its eluci
dation in Sanskrit. Begins.- (text ) fol. I ए ८०५ नमः सर्वदर्शने ॥
अरिहंतं भगवंतं etc. as in No. 238. , -- (com.) fol. r* अहेतं पूजायोग्यं ॥ अंतरंगरिपुजेतारं वा । भगवंत
पूज्यं । सर्वज्ञ लोकालोकस्वरूपज्ञातारं etc. Ends.- ( text ) fol. 10 जत्थ जिणाणं जम्मो etc. up to थुयमहिया ॥ १११॥
___as in No. 238. - (com.) fol. 10° स्तुताः स्तुतिविषयीकृताः किंवि० श्रीमन्महेंद्रभुवनेंद्रचंद्रमुनिदस्तुतमहिताः । श्रीमद्भिः महेंद्रेः श्रीपूज्यश्रीमहेंद्रसूरिभिः। भुवनंद्राः पातालपतयः पृथ्वीपतयो देवेंद्राश्च । तथा चंद्रज्योतिष्व(क)स्वामिनः चंद्रसाहचर्याच्च मूर्या अपि गृह्यंति(ते) सर्वैस्ताः प्रतिमाः श्रुताश्च महिताः सत्रुताश्च ॥ १११॥ छ । शुभं भवतु । कल्याणमस्तु ॥ लेषकपाठकयोर्मगलं 25 ब्रूयात् ।। छ । श्रीः ॥ छ । ॥ छ ॥ Then in a different hand we have :
इति प्रतिमास्तुति समाप्ता ॥ ॥ तथा तीर्थमालासूत्रवृत्ति समाप्ता Reference.- For additional Mss. of the commentary see Jinaratna.
kośa ( Vol. I, pp. 160-161 ). On p. 160 the commentator 30 is said to be Mahendra Sūri of the Añcala gaccha. But I do
not think so. ___N. B.- For additional information see No. 238. .
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