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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
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Description.- Country paper thick, tough and white'; Jaina Deva
nāgari characters ; very small, fairly legible, uniform and very good hand-writing ; borders ruled in three lines in black ink ; red chalk used; foll, numbered in the righthand margin; there is some space kept blank in the centre of the numbered and the unnumbered sides as well ; yellow pigment used while making corrections ; edges of each and every fol. slightly gone ; small strips of paper pasted to some of them; condition on the whole tolerably
good; complete ; 278 verses in all. Age.-- Old. Author.-- Not mentioned, Subject.— Narration of Arāmaśobhä su named as the garden used
to accompany her ( Vidyutprabha ) wherever she went. This narration illustrates the fruit of being a devotee of a Tirikankara. There is a Prakrit work named Aramasoha. Its substance in Gujarāti is given in the publication dated
V. S. 1997 and issued from Surat. Begins. fol. 146 Oy
347971 ACTOITEATAT 'TIATÈ'gi Falnegara IT TOTIŞISI 'ù Il ? भगवान सुमनः कृत्वा समव[:]सरणे स्थिते(त):।
Thai TAITÀ Igalore I etc. Ends.- fol. 36
na(s) gar wargalai) i avargtarnia! भवान् कतिपयान प्राप्य । शास्व(श्व)तां सिद्धिमेष्यति ॥ ७७ एवं भोस्तीर्थकद्भक्तेः फलमाकर्ण्य सुंदरं ।
#TÅ FACETURTIGEar(:) (H)qia per II VC इति आरामशोभाकथा जिनभक्तो संपूणों । मुनिपद्मसुंदरलषितं ।। शुभं
(a)ad" Reference,- In Jinaratnakośa ( Vol. I, pp. 33-34 ) several Mss.
are noted. Of them this Ms, and the next deal with the same work, and so is the case with the subsequent two Mss. But such a distinction is not made in this Jinaratnakośa. The Ms. No. 1293 of 1887-91 remains to be described.
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