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Devanagari characters ; very small, quite legible, uniform and very good hand-writing ; borders ruled in two lines in black ink; red chalk used to mark the numbering for the verses ; foll. numbered in both the margins; in the left-hand margins the title is written sometimes as पद्मचरि and at times as पद्मचरित्र ; there is some space kept blank in the centre of the numbered and the unnumbered sides as well; fol. !' blank ; condition very good ; complete so far as 7 sargas are concerned ; the last (8th) incomplete ; the extent of each of them is as under :Sarga I foll. 1 to 3.
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VIII , 27 , 27°. 20 Age.-- Not modern. Begins.-- fol. 1॥ ॥
सकलाहत्प्रतिष्टा(ष्ठा)नमधिष्टा(ष्टा)नं शिवभियः भूर्भुवःस्वस्तु(स्त्र)यीशानमाहत्यं प्रणिदध्महे ॥१ नामाकृतिद्रव्यभावैः पुनतास्त्रिजगज्जनं क्षेत्रे काले च सर्वस्मिन्नर्हतः समुपास्महे ॥२॥
अथ श्रीसुव्रतस्वामी etc. in as No. 261. Ends.- fol. 270
इत्याग्रह पर रामं ज्ञात्वा च सोघा(?)वचन यावत् सौमित्रिणा तावस्थाप्य धारपाणिना ॥३ भरतं च तथा यातं व्रताय कृतनिश्चयं
ज्ञात्वा सीता विसल्याचास्तवाजग्मुः ससंबमः ॥ ४ (१०४) This Ms. ends thus. N. B. - For further particulars see No. 258.
1 These first two verses accur in the beginning of TSPO (parranI, eanto1).
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