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The Svetāmbara Narratives
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अम्बडचतुष्पदी
Amba dacatuspadi (अम्बडचोपाइ)
( Ambadacopai) No. 28
1172.
1886-92. Size.-- 104 in. by 44 in. Extent. — 118 folios ; 13 lines to a page ; 30 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper thin, tough and white; Jaina Deva
nagari characters with rare पृष्ठमात्राs; big, fairly legible, uniform and tolerably fair hand-writing ; borders ruled in two lines in black ink ; red chalk used for marking the 10 numbers for verses etc.; foll. numbered in the righthand margin ; some space kept blank in the centre of the unnumbered and numbered sides as well; yellow pigment used while making corrections ; several foll. more or less worm-eaten ; condition on the whole tolerably good; IS
complete ; composed in Samvat 1639 in Ujāņi ( Ujjen ). Age.- Not modern. Author.- Mangalamanikya, pupil of Bhanubhatta He has com
__posed विक्रमराज-खापर-चोर-रास in V. S. 1638. Subject.- A narration of Ambada in Gujarati. It is a translation 20
of Ambada-kathānaka ( No. 26 ) composed by Muni.
ratna Sūri. Begins.- fol. !* ६० ॥ वस्तु ।
सदा संपद सदा संपद रूप जैकार । परमेष्टी पंचइ सहित । देवत्रिणि सारदासेवित । महाज्ञान आंनदमय । ब्रह्मबीजयोगेंद्रवंदित।। भूयणत्रणि गुण(वणी)मय । विद्या चौद निवास । हुं प्रणतुं परमातमा । सरवसिद्धिसपवास । १।
दुहा॥ परम ग्यो(ज्योति परमेश जे । श्रीगुरु सारद माय ।
आदिकवीश्वर संत जन नित बंदु तस पाय ॥२॥ - fol. 16" इति यो(गो)३(र)षयोगानसंबंधे अंबडविद्याधरकथायां प्रथमा
देश संपूर्णः ।
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