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The Svetämbara Narratives
शाकिनीनाम पद्रवं भूयांसं विलोकयान्यदा मंत्र यंत्रतंत्रौ । ( incomplete ).
N. B. For further particulars sce No. 92.
कथारत्नाकर
No. 94
Size.- 10 in. by 44 in.
Extent.--- 219-5-30 = 184 folios; 13 lines to a page; 38 letters to a line.
Katharatnakara
1270.
1884-87.
Ends. --
123
Description.- Country paper thin, tough and white; Jaina Deva- To nagari characters with rare gras; big, perfectly legible, uniform and very good hand-writing; borders ruled in three lines in red ink; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin; there is some space kept blank in the centre of the numbered and the unnumbered sides as well; the 15 first five foll. missing; so are foll. 123 to 152; thus this work begins abruptly; it goes up to the end but there, too, a portion of the colophon is incomplete; in all there are 258 katbas; the last is about Sītā; left-hand corners of the the first few foll. gone; edges of the last fol. worn 20 out; condition on the whole good.
Age. -- Pretty old.
Begins. ( abruptly ) fol. 6a भाग्यं ते तु सर्वे(s) पि 'गंगा प्रवाहा इत्र पुण्यस्वरूपा इति तं निर्भस्य पुरीं प्रविशन् श्रेणिको या करसरंजितचरणां यथौचित्यं कटावयेषु विनिवेशिताभरणां कज्जलकलितनेत्रां तांबु (च) लपूरि- 25 सूत्रां परिहितविवधवर्णवसनां प्रपंचितपंचेषूस्मयका रिहसनां पुष्प पूरितमग श्रमणीवेषधारिणीमेकां रमणीमद्राक्षीत् etc.
fol. 218a
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