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Description.- Country paper thin, rough and white; Jaina Deva.
nāgari characters; big, fairly legible, uniform and tolerably good hand-writing ; borders ruled indifferently in three lines in black ink ; yellow pigment used for making corrections; foll. numbered in right-hand margins; in the 5 left-hand margins the title is written once as aate and in the remaining cases as TTTIA ; there is some space kept blank in the centre of the numbered and unnumbered sides as well; this space as well as the central portion of each of the margins invariably decorated; complete ; 10
64 verses in all ; condition good. Age.- Not modern. Author.-- Śalibhadra Sūri, successor of Vajrasena Sûri of Raja
gaccha. His additional work is भरहेसर-बाहुबलि-रास composed
in V. S. 1241. Subject.-- Advice given to the ordinary masses. Begins.--- fol. 1 ॥ ५० ॥ श्रीवीतरागाय नमः ॥
प्रणमवि देवि अंबाइ । पंचाणणगामिणि । समरवि देवि सधाई । जिनसासणि सांमिणि । १ ।
ढाल । प्रणमिअ गणहर गोयमस्वामि ॥ दुरीय पणासि जेहनि नामि।
सहे(ह गुरुवयणे संग्रह कीजि । भोला लोक सीषांमण दीजि । २ etc. Ends.-—- fol. 36
गुरुउवएसह अतिघणाए कहितु न लहुं पारे तु एह बोल हईइडि धराय । सफल करो संसार तु । ६३ । सालिभद्र गुरु संकलीइ । ए सवि गुरुउपदेस नु (तु) ।
पठि गुणे जे सांभलु ए । ते भरि टलि कलेस नु(तु)। ६४ । इति श्रीवुध(द्धि)रास संपूर्णः लिषतं ऋषि इंद्रजा । बा०कान्हापठनार्थः Reference.-- Published in A. D. 1941 in “Bhāratiya Vidyā" (Vol.
II, No. 1 ) as an appendix. For extracts and additional 30 Mss. see Jaina Gurjara Kario ( Vol. I, p. 2). Here it is
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