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Description.--- Country paper thick, tough and white ; Jaina Deva.
nagari characters with frequent पृष्ठमात्रा ; sufficiently big, quite legible, uniform and good hand-writing; borders ruled in one line in black ink ; red chalk used ; foll. numbered in the right hand margins ; a piece of white paper pasted to fol. 10%; same is the case with fol. 8903; strips of white paper pasted to several foll. ; some of the foll. slightly worm eaten ; edges of several foll. partly worn out; condition on the whole tolerably good; fol. 1 blank ; so is fol. 896; complete ; four prastāvas in all; the extent of each of them is as under :___Prastava I foll. b to 16
II , 16. " 430 _III , 43 , 60%
IV , 60% , 89 Total extent 2430 šlokas. Age.- Not modern. Begins.- fol. 1b ५ ६॥ ॥ ॐ नमः श्रीसर्वज्ञाय ॥ ॥ श्रीगुरवे नमः ।।
चतुरंगो जयत्यहन् etc. as in No. 463. 20 Ends.- fol. 89° श्रीमत्पार्श्वजिनेन्द्र etc. up to मयेदं तथा ॥ २५ as in
No. 465. This is followed by the lines as under:
इत्यागमिकश्रीजयतिलकसूरिविरचिते ज्ञानरत्नोपाख्याने मलयसुंदरीचरिते शीलावदातपूर्वभववर्णनो नाम चतुर्थः प्रस्तावः ॥ छ ॥ ४
ग्रंथप्रमाणमत्रेदं ति(वि)ज्ञेयं श्लोकसंख्यया।
शतानि जिनसंख्यानि त्रिंशता(s)भ्यधिकानि च ॥ ग्रंथाप्रसंख्या २४३० छ । Reference.- For additional details see No. 463.
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मलयसुन्दरीचरित No. 468
Malayasundaricarita
791. 1892-95.
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