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The Svetambara Narratives
Extent. - 10 folios; 13 lines to a page ; ;8 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper thin, rough and white; Jaina Devanagari characters; sufficiently big, quite legible, uniform and very good hand-writing; borders ruled indifferently in three lines in black ink; red chalk used; foll, numbered 5 in the right-hand margins; fol. 10b blank, edges of a few foll. partly gone: condition on the whole good ; complete; composed in Sarivat : 672 at Medata.
Age.-- Sarvat 104.
Author.— Upādhyāya Samayasundara. For his additional works etc. to see Vol. XVII, pt. 2, No. 520; Vol. XVII. pt 4, No. 1356; Vol. XIX, sec.1, pt. 2, Nos. 465 and 490; Vol. XIX, sec. 2, pt. 1, Nos. 195 & 222 and pt. 2, No. 392.
Subject. A story about Priyan claka.
It deals with the life of the son of Simhala. It depicts the prowess of donation-charity. 15 Begins. fol. 14 ए ६० ॥ श्रीगुरुवे नमः ॥ राग सोरठ
प्रण सदगुरुपाय । समरं सरसति सामिनी । 'दान' धरम दीपाय | कहेसि कथा कौतक भणी ॥ १ धरमां मांहि प्रधान | देतां रूडा दीसीइ | दीघ वरसीदांन । अरिहंतदीक्षाअवसरइ ॥ २ etc. प्रथवी मांहि प्रसिद्ध सुणीयइ दानकथा सदा । प्रियमेलक अप्रसिद्ध । सरस घणुं संबंध छड् ॥ ५ etc.
Ends. fol. 90
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