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524. ] The Svetāmbara Narratives
271 रत्नशेखरनरपतिकथा
Ratnasekharanarapa tikathā (TUHETETTO )
(Ravaņasebaranaravaikahā) पर्वतिथिविचार
Parvatithivicāra [ Yeafarefasır ]
[ Paypatibiviāra ]
1318. No. 524
1886-92. Size.--- 104 in. by 4 in. Extent. - 21 folios ; 15 lines to a page ; 44 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper thin, tough and white ; Jaina Deva
nāgari characters; big, quite legible, fairly uniform and 10 tolerably good hand-writing ; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink ; the space between these pairs coloured red; foll, numbered in the right-hand margins; there is some space kept blank in the centre of the numbered and unnumbered sides as well; fol. 21 blank; some of the 15 dandas written in red ink; edges of a few foll, slightly gone; condition on the whole good; complete; composed
at Citrakūta. Age.- Samvat 1614. Author.- Jinaharșa, pupil of Jayacandra Sūri. His additional works 20 are as under :
(1) ITIATIHTETRA (2) februāfu V. S. 1525 (3) TEJTERV. S. 1497
(4) fã farmaplaa!TiųENT V. S. 1502. 25
For further information the reader may refer to my
introduction ( pp. 8-9 ) to " státuatizatatura". Subject. - A story about Rarnasekhara, a king. Begins.— fol. 1' 60 ll te
कल्याणस्थिनिलयं । नमिऊणं वद्धमाणं जिणचंदं । पव्वतिहीण विभआरं । भणामि अणिआनुसारेण ॥ १॥
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