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Hymnology : Svetambara works
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Description.- Country paper thin, tough and white ; Jaina Deva.
nāgari characters with occasional qrAIts ; small, quite legible, uniforın and very good hand-writing ; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink; red chalk used ; foll, numbered in the right-hand margin; yellow pig. ment used while making corrections; there is some space kept blank in the centre of the numbered and unnumbered sides as well; it is so kept that it gives rise to a pattern; edges of some of the foll. gone; condition on the whole tolerably good ; both the text ( containing 25 verses ) and the commentary complete ; the latter ends on fol. 4a and it is composed in Samvat 1519. This Ms. contains in addition the following 'five works :
(1) aleaaruaita with com. foll. 48 to 76 (2) NITTIT (3) q ardafta (4) Agrazia
(s) Areisariaa Age. Not modern. Author of the text. - Jinavallabha Sūri. For his life and works see
Vol. XVII, pt. 5, p. 3 and Vol. XVIII, pt. 1, pp. 210-212. See also the Sanskrit introduction (pp. 25-27 ) of Jaina
stotra-sandoha ( pt. I). „ of the commentary.-Sādlusoma Gani, pupil of Siddhāntaruci. Subject. - Eulogy of Adinātha mentioning his previous births and
important events of his life in Prakrit together with its
explanation in Sanskrit. Begins.- ( text ) fol. 1a
नमिय जिण(मुसभम [स]भयंसदेवबिलसंतकसिणके सचयं । मुहसमिजुन्हातहारसभभिरचकोरजुपलं च ।। १ असुरिंदसुरिंदनरिंदविंदबंदियथुयरस तस्सेव । थोयारहियकर फिर सुचरियकणकित्तणं काहं ॥२
, 176.
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1 Of thom the first four works along with the text noted here make up five hymns, and all of them are published.
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