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The Svetambara Narratives
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ताराकथा
Tārākatha No. 250
1310 (27).
1886-92, Extent.- fol. 290 to fol. 30°. Description.- Complete. For other details sce No.
1310 (1). .
1886-92. Author.- Not known. Subject.— A story of Tārā in connection with sila ( chastity ). Begins.-- fol. 290
___ रक्षति विमलं शीलं । व्यसनस्था अपीहये ।।
जना भवद्वये श्रेयस्तारावत् ते अयंति हि ॥ १॥ etc. Ends.- fol. 30
सूपो विरक्तो(s)ध(थ) एरोः समीपे
जग्राह दीक्षां कुलदेव्यकार्षीत् ॥ चंद्रं नृपं तणदृष्टचित्ता।।
धर्म स कन्वा प दिवं सभार्यः ।। ६० ॥ इति शीले ताराककथा ॥
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तिलकमभरी
Tilakamañjarī No. 251
___791.
1895-1902. Size.— 10g in. by 4s in. Extent.— 181+3-1 =183 folios; as lines to a page ; so letters
___ to a line. Description.- Country paper tough and white; Devanagari chara
cters; big, legible and good hand-writing ; borders of most of the foll. ruled in three lines and edges in one in red ink; numbers for most of the foll. entered twice as usual ; fol. 1. blank; foll. 46, 65 & 76 repeated ; fol. 48 lacking; fol. 7 wrongly numbered as 67: perhaps '6' left out to be struck off ; fol. 117 numbered once only : so are the
foll. 119, 173 and 176; complete ; condition very good. Age.- Not quite modern,
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