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The Svetāmbara Works
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पाण्डवचरित्र
Pāņdavacaritra No. 378
443.
1882-83. Size.--- Ios in. by 43 in. Extent.--- 166-1=165 folios; 16 lines to a page; so letters to a line. S Description.-- Country paper thin, tough and greyish ; Jaina Deva
nagari characters with occasional पृष्ठमात्रा ; big, quite legible, fairly uniform and very good hand-writing; borders ruled in three to four lines in black ink ; red chalk used ; foll. numbered twice in the right-hand margin ; bits of paper 10 pasted to corners of several foll, and strips of paper to edges of some ; condition on the whole tolerably good; the first fol. missing ; so this work begins abruptly ; it, however,
goes up to the end; 18 cantos in all. Age- Samvat 1451 (?). Author.- Devaprabha Súri, pupil and successor of Municandra
Sūri of the Maladhārin gaccha. Subject.- Lives of the five Pandavas. Begins abruptly, fol. 2a
तत्रैकं प्रेमरंगेण कुरंगीबाहुकारिणं । दूरा(त् ) कुरंगमालौ( लो )क्य सो(s)धि(ज्यं) विदधे धनुः ॥ २५ स प्रेयसी पुरस्कृत्य संत्रासतरलेक्षणः ।
पलायामास सारंगः कांदिशीकमनाः पुरः ॥२६ etc. Ends.-fol. 1661 यावत् संसारतापव्यतिकरमिदुरा वाग् जिनानां मुनींद्र
25 प्रज्ञाकांतावगाढा विधुरयति सदा दीर्घिकादर्पमुद्रां । तावन्निनिद्रकार्तस्वरकमलकलां पुष्पदश्रांतमस्यां
विश्व विद्वविरेफार्पितमहिममहाकाव्यमेतद धिनोतु ॥ ८२ इति 'मलधारि'श्रीदेवप्रभसूरिविरचिते पांडवचरिते महाकाव्ये बलदेवस्वर्गगमनश्रीनेमिनाथपांडवनिर्वाणवर्णनो नाम अष्टादशः सर्गः २०
समाप्तं ॥ ५ ॥ 10 [J. L. P.]
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