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Jaina Literature and Philosophy [ 508. Description.- Country paper thick, rough, tough and white; Jaina
Devanagari characters; big, quite legible, uniform and beautiful hand-writing; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink ; red chalk used ; foll. numbered in the right-hand margins in two sets : १, २ etc. and १६९, १७. etc. ; fol. !' blank ; so is fol. 6b ; corners of several foll. gone edges of the last fol. partly worn out; condition on the whole
good ; complete ; the letter इ artistically written. Age.-- Pretty old. 10 Author.-- Not known. Subject. --- A story illustrating the vow of Meghamālā also named as
Ambuda-mālikā. Begins.- fol. 1° ॥ ॥ ६ ॥
श्रीवर्द्धमानं त्रिदशेस्व(श्व रैर्नुतं ।
नत्वा(s)धुना वच्मि सुधर्मभूषित ॥ पापापहं धर्मविवर्द्धिनं च तं
मुक्तिप्रदं चांबुदमालिकाव्रतं ॥ १ यत् पुरा मुनिभिः प्रोक्तं बहुबुध्या सुविस्तरं ॥
तत् संक्षिप्य मया मंदमेधसा(s)त्र प्रकाश्यते ॥ २ etc. 20 Ends.- fol. 50
यो व्रतं कुरुते(s)न्येषां कारापयति धर्मधीः ॥ सो(s)पि तत्फलमास्वाद्य मुक्ति यातु निजेच्छया ॥ ६९ इति भव्यजनस्य वल्लभा कथिता या मुनिमिः प्रदर्शिता ॥ इह सा जिनवीरशाशिनो ननु दासेन वृषामिवांछया ॥ ७० ॥
इति मेघमालावताख्यानकं समाप्तं ॥ छ ॥ शुभं भवतु ॥ ॥ छ। Reference.-- Only this Ms. is noted in Jinaratnakosa (Vol. I,
p. 315).
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