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The Svetambara Narratives
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कुमारपालप्रबन्ध
Kumāra pālaprabandha
1230. No. 140
1886-92. Size. - 104 in. by 44 in. Extent.- 90 folios ; IS lines to a page ; so letters to a line. Description.- Country paper thin, rough and greyish ; Jaina
Devanāgari characters with frequent quan ; sufficiently big, quite legible, uniform and very beautiful hand-writ. ing; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink; red chalk profusely used; foll. numbered in the right-hand 10 margin; fol, 1 blank except that the title is writtent here as under :
श्रीकुमारपालप्रबंधः वा सर्वदर्शनसामान्यताप्रबंधः
There is some space kept blank in the centre of the numbered and the unnumbered sides as well; a few foll. 15 slightly worm -eaten ; edges of the last two foll. partly goue ; condition on the whole good ; yellow pigment used while making corrections ; complete. In the end we have
सर्वदर्शनसामान्यताप्रबन्ध. Age.-- Samvat 151 (?)
20 Begins.- fol 1' ५६० ॥
ॐ नमः श्रीमहावीरजिनेंद्राय परमात्मने ।
परब्रह्मस्वरूपाय etc. as in No. 139. Ends.-- fol. 89
आकर्ण्य प्रतिकाननं etc. up to प्रमितवत्सरे रुचिरः । ७ | as in 25 No. 139. This is followed by the lines as under:____ इति श्रीसोमसुंदरसूरीश्वरशिष्यश्रीजिनमंडनोपाध्यायैः श्रीकुमारपालप्रबंधो यथादृष्टश्रुतानुसारेण योजितः चिरं जीयात् संवत् १५१(?) वर्षे ज्येष्ठ शुदि ३ सोमे श्री'वश्वल' नगरे विप्रगोविंदेन लिखितः ॥ कम्गm. मस्तु ॥ छ । ___ अथाऽन्यस्मिन्नवसरे श्रीसिद्धराजे संगदेवसंसारसागरतितीर्षया प्रत्येकं सर्वदर्शनेषु । सर्बदेशेषु देवतत्त्वधर्मतत्त्वपात्रतत्त्वजिज्ञासया पृच्छयमानेषु । निजस्तुतिपरनिंदापरेषु संदेहदा(दो)लाऽधिरूढमानसः श्रीहेमाचार्यमाकार्य
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