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The Svetambara Works
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Description.- Country paper thin, rough and white; Jaina Devanāgari characters with frequent पृष्ठमात्राs; small, quite legible, uniform and very good hand-writing; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink; space between these pairs coloured red red chalk used to mark out the num- 5 bering of the verses; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin; in several cases the unnumbered sides decorated in the centre with a spot in red colour while the numbered, in each of the two margins, too; yellow pigment rarely used; edges of a good many foll. partly gone; condition on the ro whole tolerably good; complete; 527 verses.
Age.-- Pretty old.
Author - Nor mentioned.
Subject. A story of Nandayanti narrated for pointing out the prowess of sila (chastity).
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Begins. fol. 14 ॥ ६० ॥
अथ प्राह प्रभुर्दानरूपमुक्तो ( 5 ) पि मानवः । शीलसौभाग्यसंपन्नः सिद्धिलक्ष्म्या निषेव्यते ॥ १ तदधः कृतकल्पह (दु) कामधेनुमहानिधि । शीलरत्नं जयत्येकमनेकसुखकारणं ॥ २ etc. मत्वेति धीमता शीलं शीलनीयमनारतं । नंदयंती जनं तत्र नंदयंतीनिदर्शनं ॥ ६ etc.
Ends. fol. 12b
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