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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
( 223.
Extent.-- 18 folios; 13 lines to a page; 40 letters to a line. Description.-- Country paper thin, rough, tough and white; Jaina
Devanāgari characters; big, quite legible, fairly uniform and good hand-writing ; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink ; red chalk used; foll, numbered in the right-hand margin ; edges of the first fol. slightly gone ;
condition on the whole good; complete. Age. - Samvat 1717. Begins— fol. 14 il flusso AA: 11
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AISIT AIC etc, as in No. 222. Ends.-- fol. 18 अनुकंपा ऊपरि etc. up to वात वणाइ रि के ॥ १८॥ as in
No. 222. This is followed by the lines as under :
सर्वगाथा १६३ इति श्रीदानाधिका[२]रे चंपकसेठचतुष(प)दी संपूर्ण संवत १५१७ वर्षे म(मा)ग(स)रवदि ११ रवीवासरे लिखितं श्री राघंपुर'
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N. B.- For other details see No. 22.
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चम्पकेभ्यकथानक
Campakebhyakathānaka
348. No. 224
1871-72. Size.— 10 in. by 4in Extent.- 17 folios; 14 to 15 lines to a page ; 35 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper soinewhat thick, tough and white;
Jaina Devanāgari characters; big, quite legible, uniform and beautiful hand-writing; borders ruled in two lines and edges in one in red ink ; foll. numbered in the righthand margin ; fol. 1 blank; corners of each and every fol. gone ; condition on the whole tolerably good; complete;
extent 1653 šlokas; composed at Amlasthala. Age.- Not modern. Author.- Brhma-vimala. Is he Digambara? Subject.-A story of Campaka, an ibhya. It illustrates the prowess
of " anukampā-dāna”.
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