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The Svetāmbara Narratives
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कालकाचार्यकथा
Kālakācāryakathā
1592. No. 113
1891-95. Size.- 10 in. by 44 in. Extent.- 14 folios ; 13 lines to a page ; 40 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper thin, rough and greyish; Jaina
Devanagari characters ; sufficiently big, quite legible, uniform and beautiful hand-writing ; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink ; yellow pigment used while making corrections; foll. numbered in both the margins; 10 fol. 1a blank except that six verses eulogizing some monks of the 'Kharatara' gaccha are written on it; there is some space kept blank in the centre of the numbered and the upnumbered sides as well; the title is written in the left-hand margin as कालकाचार्यकथा ; complete : condition IS
very good. Age.- Samvat 1682. Author.- No! mentioned. Subject.~ A story of Kalaka Suri in Gujarati. Begins. --- fol. 10
___ अर्हत भगत उत्पन्नदिव्यविमलकेवलज्ञानभास्कर तदुपदिष्ट विशिष्ट
ए श्री पर्युषणा'पर्व तेहनइ समागमन हुयइ हुतइ etc. Ends.-fol. 14° श्रीकालकाचार्यइ घणओ कालसीम महावीररा तीर्थरी प्रभावना
करी आत्मार्थ साधी देवलोक रइ विषइ देवता हुआ एवंविध पर्व प्रमाण चडइ तेके हरओ प्रसादविधि चैत्यालय पूज्यमान श्रीशासनाधीश्वर महावीर 25 गुरुपरंपराई श्रीजिनचंद्रसूरिरी आज्ञा वहमान श्रीसंघ आचंद्रार्क जयवंत प्रवतओ श्रीः इति श्रीकालिकाचार्यकथा समाप्ता छः संवत् १६८२ वर्षे श्री खरतरं गच्छे पं०मानविजयमुनिना(5)लेखि भी। On fol. It we have :
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नमः श्रीवर्द्धमानाय श्रीमते च सुधम्र्मणे । सर्वानुयोगद्धेभ्यो । वाण्यै सर्वविदे तथा ॥१॥ अज्ञानतिमिरांधानां । ज्ञानांजा(ज)नशि(श)लाकया ।
नेत्रमुन्मीलितं येन । तस्मै श्रीगुरवे नमः ॥२॥ 19 [J.L.P.
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