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नागकुमारचरित
Nāgakumāracarita
__1437. No. 343
1886-92. Size.- Io in. by 4g in. Extent.-- 53+1=54 folios ; 9 lines to a page ; 36 letters to a line. 3 Description.- Country paper thin, rough and greyish; Devanagari
characters; big, quite legible, uniform and very good handwriting ; borders ruled in three lines and edges in one in red ink ; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin; some foll. have stuck together owing to the presence of gum in lo the ink used; a careless attempt made by some one to separate at least the last two foll. has damaged them; otherwise the condition on the whole good; complete ; composed in Samvat I STI ; fol. I blank ; there is an extra
blank fol. placed in the beginning. Age.-- The 17th century of the Vikrama era. Author.- Dharmadhara ( Dharmadhira ). Subject. -- Life of Năgakumāra illustrating the prowess of the vow
pertaining to the sth day of the bright half of a month. Begins.-- fol. 1" ए ६०॥ ने नमः सिद्धेभ्यः ।।
20 श्रीमंतं त्रिजगद्वंद्य संसारांबुधितारकं । प्रणमामि जिनेशाना( नां) वृषभं वृषभध्वजं ॥१॥ नमोऽस्तु वर्द्धमानाय केवलज्ञानचक्षुषे । संसारश्रमनाशाय कोषध्वांतभानवे ॥२॥ जिनराजमुखांभोजराजहंसी सरस्वती मानसे रमतां नित्यं मदीये परमेश्वरी ॥३॥ गौतमादीन् मुनीन् नत्वा श्रुतसागरपारगान् ।
वक्ष्ये(s)हं शुकृपंचम्या फलं भव्यसुखप्रदं ॥ ४॥ etc. Ends.-- fol. 530
(? व्य)तीते विक्रमादित्ये रुद्रेषुशशि(१५११ )नामनि । श्रावणे शुक्लपक्षे च पूर्णिणमा चंद्रवासरे ॥ ५३॥
1 Is this a Digambara work ?
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