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186.]
The Svetambaru Narratives
241
गुणवर्मकथा
Guņavarmakathā
242. No. 186
1873-74. Size.- 97 in. by 41 in. Extent.- 60 folios; 13 lines to a page ; 40 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper somewhat thick, tough and white;
Jaina Devanagari characters with occasional yarats ; sufficiently big, quite legible, uniform and very good handwriting ; borders ruled in four lines in black ink; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin ; fol. 30 wrongly numbered as 39; fol. ja blank; there is some space kept blank in the centre of the numbered and the unnumbered sides as well; yellow and white pigments used; a portion of fol. 59 gone; edges of the last fol. worn out; condition on the whole good ; complete; composed in Samvat 15 1484 at Satyapura ; the entire work is divided into five sargas; the extent of each of them is as under :Sarga I foll, to 10
» 109 , 196 » III ryb
300 » IV 312 419
, 412 .606. Age. - Pretty old. Author.- Manikyasundara Suri, pupil of Merutunga Sūri of
Añcala gaccha. He has composed the following additional 25 works 'three of which are mentioned in the colophon of
this very work:(1) cap (2) TUIGJÁT770177
V. S. 1484 (3) gezizasalia also called Vāgvilāsa (in Gujarāti) V. S. 1478 30 (4) AETATH318taita (5) J*TI*911 (6) SUTERTE
V. S. 1463
II
1 For their names gee p. 244, 31 (J. L. P. 1
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