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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
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रत्नसारकुमाररास
Ratnasārakumārarāsa No. 529
616.
1895-98. Size.- 103 in. by 4, in. Extent. — 14 folios ; 14 lines to a page ; 36 letters to a line. Description.-~- Country paper thin, rough, tough and white ; Jaina
Devanāgari characters ; big , perfectly legible, fairly uniform and good hand-writing; borders ruled in three lines in red ink ; red chalk used ; foll. numbered in the right-hand margins; there is some space kept blank in the centre of the numbered and unnumbered sides as well ; yellow pigment used for making corrections ; condition very good ;
complete ; composed in Samvat 1582. Age.- Pretty old. Author. --- Vacaka Sahajasundara, pupil of Upadhyaya Ratna.
samundar. For further particulars see Vol. XIX (sec. 2,
pt. I, p. 240). Subject.— Life of Ratnasāra(kumāra) in Gujarāti. Begins.-- fol. 1 ॥ ६ ॥
प्रथम विद्याविलासनी ढाल ॥
सरसति हंसगमणिनि य(प)य प्रणमी । अविरल वाणि प्रकासो रे। 'सेत्रंज मंडण श्रीरिसहेसर । श्री जीराउलि पास रे। नेमिकुमर 'गिरिनारि' अलंकृत । राजीमतीभरतारो रे।
भनयर 'थभण'परमेसर । 'फलवधिपास कुमारो रे ॥१॥ etc. 'अंचलिगच्छि गरूआ गच्छिनायक सिद्धांतसागरसूरी(रि) रे सांप्रति गुणनिधानसूरि थभ रमीजे । पूरे मनह जगीस रे'etc.
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1 Instead of this verse we have the following in Jaina Gurjara Kavio (Vol. I) on p. 124 :
" ‘उवएस'गछ गिरूआ गछनायक रयणप्पहसुरीस रे
संप्रति श्रीसिद्धसूरि नमीजइ, पूरइ मनह जगीस रे".
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