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The Svetāmbara Narratives 'रामचरित्र
Rāmacaritra [ f]
[ Padmacaritra ]
308. No. 534
1871-72. Size.- 103 in. by 4g in. Extent.— 148 folios ; 14 lines to a page ; 32 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper thin, very brittle and grey ; Jaina
Devanāgari characters ; big, perfectly legible, uniform and very good hand-writing ; borders ruled in three lines in red ink; yellow pigment used for making corrections ; foll. 10 numbered in the right-hand margins ; strips of white paper pasted to edges of several follo; so in a number of cases foliation is gone ; in some cases foll. are numbered in the lefthand margins when the toliation in the other margins is gone i condition on the whole tolerably good ; red chalk is used; in the centre of the numbered and unnumbered sides as well there is some space kept blank so that it forms a design ; complete ; ten sargas in all ; a piece of white
paper of the size of a sol. pasted to fol. 18; fol. 1a blank. Age.--- Samvat 1695. Author.-- Devavijaya Gaņi ( see No. 361 ). Subject.--- Life of Rämacandra. Begins. - fol. 1° y COLI SITTUTTT FH: 11
सकलभट्टारकप्रभुश्री५श्रीविजयाणंदसूरीश्वरगुरुभ्यो नमः ॥ 849 sigadeaf, etc. as in No. 361.
25 Ends.-- fol. 1466
Wanna aga 1 ... ... etc. up to qafea aret. This is followed by the lines as under :
भवतु श्रियां पदं ४ इति प्रशस्तिः समाप्ताः छ
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1 This is same as Padmacaritra No. 361. 2 This is not reproduced as letters on fol, 147a are indistinct,
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