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चन्दन-मलयागिरि-चतुष्पदी Candana-Malayāgiri-catuspadi (चन्दन-मलयागिरि-चोपड) (Candana-Malayāgiri- copai )
687. No. 202
1892-95. Size.— 109 in. by 4; in. Extent.-- 12 folios; 12 lines to a page; 33 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper thin, tough and greyish; Jaina
Devanagari characters; big, quite legible, uniform and very good hand-writing; borders ruled in two lines and edges in one in red ink ; daņdas and sometimes 10 some words here and there written in red ink; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin; edges of several foll. gone; condition on the whole tolerably good ; complete ;
composed in 8 dhalas in all. Age.- Pretty old. Author.- Bhadrasena. Subject.- A life-sketch of Candana and Malayāgiri in Gujarāti
in verse. Begins.- fol. ! ॥६॥ श्रीवि(वी)तरागाय नमः॥
श्रीजिनघरचरणे नमी गासु ढाल रसाल । चंदन-मलयागरी तणो । उत्तम कहं उपाय ॥१॥ स्वस्ति श्री विक्रमा'पुरी । प्रणमी श्रीजगदीस । तनमन जीवन सुषकरण । पुरण मुझ मत जगीस ॥२॥ वरदाइक वर सरस्वती । मसी(ति)विसत(स्ता)रण मात । प्रणतुं मन धरि मोदसं । हरण बीघनसंघात ॥ ३॥ मम उपगारि परम गुरु । गुण अषयदातार। वंद ताके पगजुगल । भद्रसेन मुनीराय ॥४॥ किहां चंदन किहां मलयागीरी। किहां सायर किहां नीर? ।
कहेउं ताकी वारता सुणो सहु विरतंत ॥५॥ etc. Ends.- fol. 120
सरवरनी सुष भोगवी । 'महावी(वि)द(द)हे' उतार । करणी में बल पामसी। अविचल सीवपुर ठाम । सो०४९ । पु.॥ धन धन एहवा मुनीवरु । धन तेनो अवतार । सो०।
प्र(ह) उठीने प्रणमीइं । नामह नव निध होय । सो०। ५० पु०॥ 34 II. L. P.]
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