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Description
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The Svetambara Works
24 folios; 13 lines to a page; 46 letters to a line.
Country paper thin and white; Devanagari characters; big, clear and fair handwriting; borders ruled in two lines in red ink; space between the lines coloured yellow; the unnumbered foll. marked in the centre with a vertical square so to say and the numbered in the margins also; red chalk and yellow pigment used; complete. Gujarāti language.
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Subject Twenty-five stories pertaining to Vetāla a famous lokakatha. This work is so to say a sub-story embodied in the Vikramacaritra. It is a kautuka-kathā.
Age - Seems to be old.
Author – Pandita Simhapramoda.
Begins fol. 1a
आदि आदिपुरुष नमुं । आदीसर अरिहंत । गुरु गोअम गणधारनिनु । भाराहु भगवंत ॥ १ ॥ etc.
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वर विगति वेतालनी । कथा सुणु पंचवीस । अधिकं उच्छंकहुं । कोइ म आणु रीस ॥ ४ ॥ etc.
Ends - fol. 24b
मंगलीक गुरुनाम पवित्र । जासु पसाय कवि विचित्र । सरसति माय हयो मगलीक । जसु नामइ कवि... अलीक ॥ ५६ ॥ etc.
संवत सोलविडोत्तर (१६७२ ) । पोष मासि शुदि बीज । रवि दिनि रामरविउन । मडमनि पामारड ॥ ५८ ॥ 'तप' गछ गुरु गोअम सरस सोमविमलसूरिराय । नामिह नव निधि पामीद्र ( इ ) । प्रणमइ भूपतिपाय ।। ५९ ।।
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चरणकमल जसु सेवतां । लहोइ परमानंद । उदयव (च) रणप्रमोद कहि । जेहवु पूनिमचंद ॥ ६० ॥
तासु सीस पंडितप्रवर । कुशलप्रमोद मुनीस । सकलकला संपुनससि । पूरवइ सयल जगीस ॥ ६१ ॥ वरविवेकपरमोदपद | सेवत सुख होइ ।
लथि प्रमोद सदा लहइ । मनवंछित फल लोइ ॥ ६२ ॥ -12 [J. L. P.]
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