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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
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Description.- Country paper thin, tough and greyish ; Jaina Deva
nāgari characters with rare qelqis ; very small, fairly legible, uniform and good hand-writing ; borders ruled in two lines in red ink ; red chalk used ; edges of each and every fol. gone; condition on the whole tolerably good ; it appears that foll. must have been numbered in the right-haud margin ; of course, now none of these numbers is to be seen; it may be that each fol. which is complete by itself may be forming a separate work by itself and even
then all the 3 foll. are put together ; complete. Age.- Samvat I524. Author. Not mentioned. Subject. – Narratives mostly in Sanskrit and at times in Prākrit
___ and Vernacular. The first is about cheapness of flesh. IS Begins.-- fol. 1* (50॥ श्रीरत्नशेखरमरिगुरुभ्यो नमः ।।
एकदा श्रेणिकसभायामभयकुमारादिबहुसमुदाययुतायामेषा वार्ता:
भूत ॥ यदऽघुना किं वस्तु सुलभं etc. Ends.- fol. 36
रोह जवासा गादह दाणी । च्यारइ मूकइ पालार पाणी ॥ जूना कापड बूढा ढोर । तेहना दाम लेई गिआ चोर ॥ १ जो सुंबडदंबद्वामणी नदा ऊतरणलंच। डाहा हुइ ज पंडि आ पहिलं ते जे पंच ।। २।७
श्री'तपागच्छनायकश्रीरत्नशेखरमरिशिष्यशिरोमणिपंजिनमाणिक्य गणिचरणसरसीरुहेण भ्रमरेण सुमतिसारेण लिखितं 'प्रहलादनपुरे' सं(०). १५२४ द्वि. भा.
कथासङ्ग्रह
Kathāsaigrala
1325. No. 102
1891-95. Size.- Iot in. by 41 in. Extent.- 6 folios; 17 lines to a page ; 56 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper thin, rough and white; Jaina Deva
nagari characters with rare पृष्ठमात्रा ; small, quite cgible, uniform and very good hand-writing; borders ruled in four lines in black ink; red chalk used%3; foll. numbered in
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