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Jaina Literature and Philosophy [ 511. यशोधरचरित्र
Yasodharacaritra
167. No. 511
1872-73. Size.— 104 in. by 44 in. Extent.- 35-1 + 1 =35 folios; 13 lines to a page ; 36 letters 10 a
line. Description.- Country paper thin and grey ; Devanāgari characters
with TATIS ; bold, big, legible and good hand-writing; borders ruled in four lines in black ink ; space between the pairs coloured red; white pasie used; foll. numbered as usual; the first fol. lacking; fol. 23 repeated; fol. 33 ends abruptly with v. 240 ; fol. 34a begins abruptly with v. 27; a strip of white paper pasted to fol. 66 and the letters covered up are written thereon ; practically complete ; condition on the whole good ; composed in Samvar 1536 in 8 cantos ; the extent of cach of them is as under :
Sarga I foll. 20 to
106
O
III IV
Vi
VII VIII
jos
VIII
309
356.
The total extent is 1018 slokas, 25 Age. -- Old. Author.- Somakirti Suri, pupil of Rāmadevasena of the Nanditaţa
gaccha. For another opinion see p. 251. Subject. -- Life of Yasodhara in eight cantos as in Sakalakirti's work. Begins abruptly.-- fol. 2a
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