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कुशलविजय पंडित संवेगी । तास कहणथी कीघो थे। जंबूस्वामि तणो लवलेशइ । ए संबंध प्रसीधो वे ॥१९॥ध०॥ यह निसुणी दृढ शील जे थावइ । तास जनम सुप्रमाण थे। भणतां सुणतां मंगलमाला । निउ नितु कोडि कल्याण बे॥२०॥
धन धन जबू मुनिवरराया बे॥
इति श्रीजंबूकुमाररास संपूर्ण ।। संवत् १७६३वर्षे । पोसवदि द्वितीया ।। N. B.- For additional information see No. 228.
जम्बूस्वामिकथानक
Jambūsvāmikathānaka No. 230
1608.
1891-95. 10 Size.- Iog in. by 4g in. Extent.-- 10 folios ; 15 lines to a page ; 40 letters to a line. Description.-- Country paper thin, tough and greyish ; Jaina Deva
nāgari characters with occasional geala ; sufficiently big, quite legible, uniform and very good hand-writing%3; तर borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink ; red chalk used ; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin; there is some space kept blank in the centre of the numbered and the unnumbered sides as well so that it forms as it were a pattern ; strips of paper pasted to some of the foll.; condi• 20 tion on the whole tolerably fair ; incomplete ; this Ms. ends with a portion of the seventh sub-story, the last com.
pleted being वानरवानरीकथा. Age.--- Not modern. Author.- Not known as the work ends abruptly.
25 Subject.- A life-sketch of Jambukumāra, the foremost disciple of
Sudharman Gaşadhara in Gujarāti. This work begins
with a verse in Sanskrit. Begins.- fol. ! | ६०॥ ॐ नमो सिद्धां॥
सप्रभावं जिनं नत्वा । पाव सू(सु)रेद्रवदितं । लिषिते स्वोपकाराय। जंबूस्वामिकथानकं ॥१॥
त्रैलोक्यनायक सकलसौख्यदायक । सर्वपापक्षयंकर । चुवीसमु तीर्थकरु । श्रीमहावीर स्याहार करता etc.
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