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वर्षे वायबरशरमुधारस्मि(दिम)(१५०४)संख बृभ ।
श्रीमान् ग्रंथः सकलमुमनश्चित्तहर्षप्रणेयी । यावत् क्रीडां गगनकमन्व राजहंसो विशाले ।
तन्वानौस्तस्तिमिरभिदुरौ तावदो(दे)पा(5)पि जीयात् ॥१॥ वैवेद्योपनिषदिलासबसते।
श्रीसूरीश्वररत्नशेषरगुरोः प्रामाणिकज्ञप्रभोः।। शिष्यः स(पं)डितसामचंद्र नुरधो माधुयधुर्या व्यधात् ।
कर्पूरप्रकराविकाकथिता एताः कथा सप्रवाः ॥२॥ सप्तपंचाशदधिका शतसंख्यान्वित कथामहोदाधग्रन्थो हद्यगथै विनितम ॥३॥ निरव द्यगद्याक्षरसर्वाग्रसंख्यया ।
अष्टादश(श)ीमानमस्मिन ग्रंथे हि विद्यते ॥४॥
ग्रंथानं १८०० ॥ छ । etc. Reference.-- Karpūraprakara together with the commentary of
Jinasāgara and the kathäs of Somacandra is published by Hiralal Haimsaraj, Jamnagar in A.D. 1916. For quotations see Weber ( II, p. 110: ff.) and Peterson, Report III. A. p jieff. For additional Mss. see Jinara nakośa ( Vol. I, p. 66 ).
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Katharatnākara
776. No. 92
1895-1902 Size.- 101 in, by 43 in. Extent.- 71+1=72 folios ; 15 lines to a page; 56 letters to a line. Description.- Country puper thin and white ; Devanagari cha.
racters; small, clear and fair hand-writing ; borders not ruled; foll. numbered as usual; fol. ta blank: red chalk used ; several fell. worm-eaten; condition very fair; lacunae on iol. 54"; fol. 65 repeared; out of 10 tarangas 5 are complcte and the 6th goes up to a narrative of the wife of Priyangu, a Brahmin; it is numbered as 129; composed
in Samvat 165, Age.-- Not modern.
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