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The Svetambara Narratives
borders ruled in three lines in red ink; red chalk used; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin; fol. 1a blank; so is the fol. 6rb ; yellow pigment used while making corre ctions; condition very good except that the last fol. is partly worn out in margins ; complete ; extent 2400 flokas ; there 5 is some space kept blank in the centre of the numbered
and the unnumbered sides as well.
Age.-- Samvat 1549.
Author.-- Rajaśekhara Suri, pupil of Sritilaka Suri of ' Maladhārin ' gaccha. His additional Sanskrit works are as under :( 1 ) चतुर्विंशतिप्रबन्ध प्रबन्धकोश V. S. 1405. ( 2 ) दानपात्रंशिका
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( 3 ) न्याय कन्दली पञ्जिका.
( 4 ) रत्नाकरावतारिकापञ्जिका.
(5) षड्दर्शनसमुच्चय.
( 6 ) स्याद्वादकलिका = स्याद्वाद दीपिका.
He has composed Neminatha-phagu in Gujarati. For other details see my Gujarātī introduction to Caturviṁśatiprabandha.
Begins.-- fol. 1° ॥ ६० ॥ ॐ नमः श्रीसर्वज्ञायः ॥ श्रीसरस्वत्यै नमः ॥ aarat कामिन परिणयस्यस्यर्थमानोप्प (य) लं ततं गृहभारकातरतया मुक्तोद्यमो देवर ! | माशंकर हरिपिंड विजयी भ्राता (S) स्ति ते सर्वदो
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Subject.--A collection of 84 small stories styled as 'antarakathas', 20 Names of some of them are noted by me while describing the Ms. No. 99. This work is named as Kathāsāra, Vinodakatha and Vinodakathāsangraha, too.
जयंति गुरुवोऽस्माकं विद्यावल्लिमहीरुहाः । 'मलधारि 'गणाधीशाः श्रीश्रीतिलकसूरयः ॥ २ ॥
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मनोविनोद तूनां समाहणां यया (था) श्रुतं ।
मया कथानां ह्रस्वानां क्रियते संग्रहो बुधाः ! ॥ ३ ॥ etc.
1 This is published in ग्राचीन फागु-संग्रह ( pp. 8-11 ).
2 Read रत्नप्रभसूरि for ' रत्नशेखरसूरि ' on p. 10 ( fn. 4 ).
3 This verse supplies us with the name of this work as विनोद कथा सङ्ग्रह. 17 [J. L. P. J
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