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The Svetāmbara Narratives कथामहोदधि
Kathāmahodadhi ( कर्पूरप्रकरकथा)
( Kerrürprakarakatha )
775. No. 91
1895-1902. Size.— 108 in. by 4ų in. Extent.-- 30 folios ; 17 lines to a page ; 56 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper thin and white; Devanagari chara
cters with पृष्टमात्र!s; small, clear and good hand-writing; borders ruled in four lines in black ink; red chalk used; foll. numbered as usual ; almost all the foll. more or less 10 worm-eaten; some very badly; strips of paper pasted to the edges of fol. 1a; condition poor ; complete ; extent 1800
ślokas; composed in Samvat 1504. Age.- Old. Author.-- Fandit Somacındra, pupii of Ratnaścklara Sūri. Subject.-- This work contains 159 stories suggested in Karpūra
prakara of Harisena. These stories are at times com. posed in verse and at times in prose. A list of these stories
is given by P. Petcrson in his Report III. A p. 316ff. ). Begins.-- fol. 1 ॥६ ॥
श्रीवर्धमानमानस्य निर्द्धतवृजिनं जिनं ॥ कर्पूरप्रकर[]]ग्रन्थे कथाः स्रक्ष्यामि सप्रथाः।१।। कोऽपि स्यालघुकर्मकः मुनतधीर्देश(5)प्य ऽनार्ये यत
स्तस्याप्याईकुमारवत् गुणञ्चयः किंश्चार्यदेशाश्रमात् ।। क्षाराब्धौ शशिनोऽव कौस्तुभमणेः सा श्रीः कुतो या भवत। 25
'गंगा'शालिनि शंभुमूभि(5)कमलागारे हरेश्वोरसि ॥ २ ॥
अत्र आर्द्रकुमारकथा ॥ etc. Ends.-- fol. 30 इति चितयतू पन्नवैराग्यः कपिल आलोचनस्थाने लोचमेव
कृतवान् । गृहीतं प्रव्रज्यः १ ५०० चौरान प्रतिबोधयति स्म ॥छ ॥ ६० समालोऽयं श्रीमान् कथामहोदधिनामग्रंथः ॥ छ ।
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