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540.]
The Svetāmbara Narratives
295
Reference.- For an extract see Jaina Gurjara Kavio (Vol. I, p. 61 )
and for an additional Ms. of the text and that of the avacũrņi see Jinaratnakośa (Vol. I, p. 332 ).
Ratnaranga Upadhyāya has composed bålävabhodha of Rūpakamālā in V. S. 1582.
रूपसेनकथा
Rūpasenakathā
44.
No. 540
1877-78. Size.- 95 in. by 45 in. Extent. - 37 folios ; 13 lines to a page ; 38 letters to a line. 10 Description.- Country paper thin, rough and white ; Jaina Deva
nāgarī characters with occasional gehiats ; big, quite legible, uniform and very good hand-writing ; borders of a few foll. ruled in two to three lines in red ink; dandas written in red ink ; foll. numbered in the right-hand margins ; fol. 14 15 blank ; there is some space kept blank in the centre of the numbered and unnumbered sides as well, so that it forms a design ; a portion of an edge of the first fol. worn out; edges of some of the foll. partly damaged ; condition on the
whole tolerably good; complete ; 1150 šlokas in extent. 20 Age.- Old. Author.- Jinasūri, pupil of Sudhābhūṣaṇa, pupil of Viśälarāja Sūri.
His additional work is Priyankara-n;pa-kathā ( No. 419). Subject.— A story of king Rūpasena, son of Manmatha and that of
Kanakāvati,
Begins.
fol. 100 II stat4 79: 5
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