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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
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कथाकोश
Kathākosa
1322. No. 88
1891-95. Size.-- 9 in. by 44 in.
Extent.- 68 folios ; 16 lines to a page; 48 letters to a line. s Description.- Country paper rough and white; Devanāgari chara
cters; small, clear and very fair hand-writing ; borders ruled in three lines in black ink ; numbers of most of the foll. entered twice as usual; red chalk used; yellow pigment, too; fol. 28 wrongly numbered as 29 in the righthand margin ; about half the portions of foll. 356 and 36a blank but the continuity seems to be undisturbed ; com
plete; condition tolerably good. Age. --- Samvat 1726.
Author.- Not mentioned. 15 Subject.- Narratives. One of them is about Bähubali. Begins.--- fol. !" ॥६0। श्रीमहोपाध्यायगुरुभ्यो नमो(3)स्तु ।।
नत्वा जिनपतिमा पुंडरीकं गणाधिपं ।।
शीलाऽलंकारसंयुक्तं आश्चर्यतत्कथां बु(ब)वे ॥१॥
___ अथान्यदा वर्षाकालः समायातः । गज्जति घणा नचंति सिहिगणा । etc. 20 Ends.--fol. 68' दीक्षा गृहीता । ध्यानस्थं बाहुबलिं दृष्ट्वा । भरतस्तं अभिवंदति । एवं
बदति च पठडजेता भरतो(5)प्यहं यैरक्षेत्रिलोकीजयिभिर्जितो(5)हं । तान्यप्य हो येन जितानि अनुजं वंदे । सुनंदातनयं भटं तं । इति श्रुत्वा पुत्रं राज्ये (5)भिषिच्य स्वस्थानं गतः चक्री । बाहुबली वर्षे यावत् तत्रैव कायोसिगर्गे तस्थौ । यदहं तातपादांते लघुबांधवानां कथं नमस्करोमि । इत्यभिमानतस्तत्रैव तस्थौ ॥
इति कथाकोशः संपूर्णः । संवत् १७२६ वर्षे लिखितं. ... ... पठनार्थे ।
कार्तिकशुदि ३ दिने । Reference. - See p. 113.
1 Letters are illegible as the corresponding portion has been blotted out.
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