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देवराज-वत्सराज-कथा :
Devarāja-Vatsarāja-kathā (देवरायवच्छरायकहा ) ( Devarāya-Vaccharāya-kahā )
722. No. 288
1892-95. Size.- 10 in. by 44 in. 5 Extent.- 13 folios ; 19 lines to a page; 54 letters to a line. .... Description.- Country paper very thin, brittle and grey ; Deva
păgari characters with occasional Tags; small, legible and tolerably good band-writing: borders ruled in four lines in black ink; space between the pairs coloured red; foll. numbered as usual ; a blank white paper affixcd to fol. 1; so is the case with fol. 13; the unnumbered sides have a spot in red colour in the centre only; the numbered in the two margins, too; complete ; 705 verses in all;
condition good. 15 Age.- Not modern.
Author:- Not mentioned. Subject.- Life of Devaraja-Vatsaraja in Prakrit in verse: Begins.- fol.
अस्थि त्थ 'जंबु'दीवे 'भारह खित्तम्स मज्झखंडमि। नामेण 'खिइपइट्टिय'नयर पग्गुणगणाइन्नं ॥ १। . तं पालइ वरराया असे ससामंतपणयपयकमलो। .
पव(य)पालणिकरासिआ नामेण वीरासणु त्ति ॥ २ ॥ etc. Ends. fol. 136
चविऊण देवलोगा सुयलोगासमाणुसत्तायण कमेण तु । - पाविसह मुत्तिमुहं खविऊणं सम्बकम्माई ।। ७०५॥
इति श्रीदेवराजवच्छराजकथा ॥ छ । Reference :- No additional Ms. is noted in Jinaratnakosa ( Vol.
I, p. 178.)
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