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236.) The Svetāmbara Narratives
317 जयानन्दचरित्र
Jayānandacaritra
32. No. 236
1877-78. Size.— 9in. by the in. Extent.- 71 folios ; 11 lines to a page ; 32 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper thick, tough, and white ; Jaina Deva
nāgari characters with occasional qarIS ; big, quite legible, uniform and very good hand-writing; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink; red chalk used; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin ; fol. a blank; so is fol. 710; there is some space kept blank in the centre of the numbered and the unnumbered sides as well; yellow pigment used while making corrections ; edges of a few foll. slightly gone; condition on the whole good ; complete ; composed in Samvat 1632 at Bārejā; the entire work is divided into five ulla as; the extent of each of them is as under:Ullasa
I foll. 10 to 166 I
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» 624 71*. Age. - Samvat 1686. Author.— Vānā Kavi, a Jaina layman and a devotee of Vijaya
nanda Súri. Subject.- A life-skeich of Jayānanda Rājarși in verse in Gujarāti.
There are substories. Begins. —- fol. 1b yQ011 agnetyhillaTAFETT AA: 11
ata! शांति जिनवर शांति जिनवर नमीय बहुभत्ति ! श्रीसारद समरी सदा करुं चरित्र मनि रंग आणीय जयानंदगुण वर्ण, श्रीविजयानंदगुरु लहीय वाणीय । तासं(स) तणइ सुपसाउलइ हुउ मनि उल्हास। सरस कथा सुणयो सहु जिम मनि पुहचाइ आस ॥१॥
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