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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
पद्मचरित
( पउमचरिय )
[ राहवचरिय ]
No. 360
Size. 123 in. by 47
in.
Jain Education International
[360
Padmacarita
(Paumacariya) [ Rāhavacariya ]
Extent. 144 folios; 18 lines to a page; 75 letters to a line. Description.-- Country paper thin, rough, tough and greyish; Jaina Devanagari characters with frequent gas; small, perfectly legible, uniform and very good hand-writing; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink; red chalk used; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin; fol. 144 blank; there is some space kept blank in the centre of the numbered and unnumbered sides as well; this central portion seems to have been exposed to fire; some of the foll. wormeaten to some extent; condition on the whole tolerably 118 fair; complete; cantos; composed in Vira Samvat 530 i. e. Vikrama Samvat 60.
Age. Not quite modern.
360.
1871-72.
Author.-- Vimala, pupil of Vijaya and grand-pupil of Rahu Súri of Naila kula.
Subject.-- Life of Padma i. e. Rama according to the Jaina viewpoint. For details of this oldest available Jain epic' see my book " पाइय ( प्राकृत) भाषाओ अने साहित्य" (pp. 85-89 ). Begins.—— fol. 1° ॥ ५० ॥ नमो वीतरागाय ॥
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