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517.] The Svetāmbara Narratives
261 सूत्र. 'मारिष ! श्रीसिद्धहेमचंद्राभिधानशब्दानुशासनविधानवेधसः । श्रीमदाचार्यहेमचंद्रस्य शिष्यं रामचंद्रमभिजानासि etc.
सूत्र० प्रजानां रघुविलासनामनि चतुर्थे प्रबंधे अनुरागः। etc. Ends.- fol. 118
रामः- (जांबवतं प्रति ) अमात्य तर्हि स्वीकारमर्हति । जांव०-देव ! कः संदेहः ।
रामः-सविनयरोमाञ्चं सीतां प्रति प्राणान् यद्विरहे(s)प्यहं विस्तवान् देवि ! प्रियप्राणित___ स्तत्कृत्स्नव्यपदेशमेष समयः स्मेराशि ! नैव क्रुधाम् ।
सौमित्रेः कपिभर्तुरस्य च मे ends abruptly. Reference.--- This Ms. is noted in Jinaratnakośa ( Vol. I, p. 326 ).
रत्नचूडकथा
Ratnacūdakatha
1333. No. 517
1887-91. Size.- 101 in. by 4g in.
I Extent. 15 folios ; 14 lines to a page ; 46 letters to a line. Description.--- Country paper very think and white; Devanagari
characters with पृष्टमात्राs; small, legible and elegant handwriting ; borders ruled in three lines in red ink ; red chalk used; foll. numbered as usual ; edges and corners of some 20 foll.-slightly worn out; condition on the whole good ;
complete. Age.-- Old. Author.- Jhanasāgara, pupil of Ratnasimha Suri of the Tapā gaccha. Subject.- A story of Ratnacida illustrating the importance of 25
charity. For details see " A History of the Sanskrit Literature of the Jainas" ( Vol. II, pt. I, pp. 251-255).
1 This term is used for principal characters in a drama,
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