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The Svetāmbara Narratives
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red chalk used ; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin; unnumbered sides are decorated with a small disc in red colour in the centre only, whereas the numbered, in each of the two margins, too; some of the foll. badly worm - eaten ( vide foll. 19-28); condition on the whole tolerably good ; complete so far as the 1500 is concern.
ed; the subsequent kai hā ends abruptly. Age.- Pretty old. Author.- Not known. Subject.- This work starts with a narrative of Vikramaditya.
. Sometimes a narrative is in Prakrit. Vide fol. 36° ff. Begins.- fol. I' ५६० ॥ नमः सर्वज्ञाय ।
समस्तस(?)तविस्तोमस्वच्छमानसहविकां । कामधेनुमतीष्टातौ प्रणिपत्य सरस्वतीं। १ विदग्धानां प्रमोदाय | सतकथानकसंग्रह। बहुश्रुतेभ्यो विज्ञाय विधास्ये(s)हं यथामतिः । २ सिद्धिहेतुः कदाप्यत्र भवेत् स्वप्नो(5)पि कस्यचित् ॥
देवानुकल्यवश तो विक्रमादित्यभूपवत् ॥ ३ etc. Ends.--fo.1 87° ततो मार्जारः। ततः प्रथमनरके गतः। अनंतसंसारे भ्रमणं करिष्यति।
श्रेष्टी धने पाल्य अनशनं गृह्य 'सौधर्मे' इंद्रसाम्य(मा)निको देवः। क्रमेण 20 मोक्षं च ॥
इति तृतीयाणवते चतुर्थातिचारे वरुणकथा ॥ ५ ॥ तप्पडिरूवं दवं पि वियं जो भब्वदव्यमज्झमि । विकिणइ किणइ दुखं । सागरचंदु व सो इहइं॥१
'नंदिपुरे' नगरे समरमकारे (ends abruptly ) Reference.- Over and above this work and the next two there
are several anonymous works named as Kathasangraha. For their Mss. see Jinaratnakosa ( Vol. I, p.67).
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कथासङ्ग्रह
Kathāsangraha
1272. No. 101
1884-87. Size.- 101 in. by 4g in. Extent.- 3 folios ; 28 lines to a page ; 70 letters to a line.
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