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The Svetambara Narratives
foll.
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अम्बडकथानक
Amba dakathānaka
573 No. 26
1884-86. Size.--104 in. by 44 in. Extent.— 32 folios ; 17 lines to a page ; 40 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper thick, durable and somewhat white
in colour : Devanāgari characters with occasional qrarats ; bold, good and big hand-writing ; borders unruled; numbers for verses etc. written in red ink; foll. numbered as usual ; fol. 1blank ; - practically from the 19th fol. 10 letters are blotted out and hence illegible, perhaps owing to ink on one fol. being absorbed by and spread out on the other ; condition tolerably good ; complete ; 7 adeśas in all ; the entire work is divided into parts known as adeśas as under :-- Adeśa 1
bago 5b-98 96-12 12-18a (7) 18* (?)-210
216-7 , VII
2-326. Age.- Not modern. Author.-- Muniratna Súri.. Subject. — A narration of Kșatriya Ambada along with 32 25
Putrikäs in verse and prose as well, in Sanskrit. Begins.- fol. roll toll
धर्मात् संपद्यते लक्ष्मीर्धर्माद रूपमनिंदितं । धर्मात सौभाग्यदीर्घायुधर्मात् सर्व समीहितं ॥१॥ धर्मस्योपरि संबंधः क्षत्रियस्यांवडस्य च ।।
ETÕTTENTE TANäigua ingatan a ll etc. Ends,- fol. 320
यत्पुर्या मुज्जयिन्या सुचरितविजयी विक्रमादित्यराजा
वैभातो यस्य तुष्टः कनकनरमदाद् विष्टरं पुत्रिकाभि । 5 [J. L. P.)
III IV
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