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The Svetambara Narratives
Reference. For additional Mss. see Jinaratnakośa (Vol. I, p. 282).
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No. 435
Size. 10 in. by 4 in.
Extent.-28-1=27 folios; 11 lines to a page; 33 letters to a line. Description. Country paper thin and white; Jaina Devanagari characters with occasional gaars; big, perfectly legible, uniform and very beautiful hand-writing; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink; dandas and a few lines at the 10 end written in red ink; yellow pigment used for making corrections; foll. numbered in the right-hand margins; there is some space kept blank in the centre of the number. ed and unnumbered sides as well so that it forms a design; on fol. 27 a svastika is drawn on both the sides of the 15 central space; fol. 28b blank except that there are some items about extent etc.; some of the foll. slightly worm-eaten; condition on the whole good; the first fol. is missing; so this work begins abruptly; it, however, goes up to the end; extent 650 slokas.
Age. Samvat 1643.
Author. Not known.
Subject. Life of Bappabhatti Sūri and that of king Ama. Begins. abruptly- fol. 2a ताः प्रचुरपरिच्छदाः शत्रवः संति । तान् सर्वान् तुम सन्नह्य चलन्नासं । पित्रा निषिद्धः । वत्स ! बालस्त्वं ऽस्मै कर्मणे न प्रगल्भसे अतः अलं उद्यमेन । etc.
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