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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
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uniform and beautiful hand-writing; borders seem to be first ruled in two pairs of lines; later on a thick red line is superimposed on each of them and that the space between them is coloured yellow; red chalk used; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin; unnumbered sides decorated with a design in three colours in the centre and the numbered, in each of the two margins, too; yellow pigment used for making corrections; fol. 1a blank ; a portion to right on fol. 1b decorated with an illustration of some Tirthamkara; a portion from the bottom is gone; corners of foll. 1 to 6 worn out; edges of a few foll. gone : condition on the whole tolerably good ; complete; 14 cantos in all ; extent in Ślokas 9000.
Age - Pretty old.
Author - Dhaneśvara Suri.
Subject — Importance of Satrumjayatirtha (a Jaina holy place ).
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Begins -- fol. 16
॥ ६० ॥ ॐ नमो भगवते श्रीयुगादिजिनेंद्राय ॥ ॥ ॐ नमो विश्वनाथाय विश्वस्थितिविधायिने । अर्हते व्यक्तरूपाय युगादीशाय योगिने ॥ १ ॥ अच्चक्रिश्रियः स्वामी चामीकरसमप्रभः । स्तुत्यः सत्कृत्य लाभाय श्रीशांतिः शुभतातिकृत् ॥ २ ॥
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After some verses we have :
श्रीशत्रुंजयमाहात्म्यं सर्व्वतत्वसमन्वितं । चकार पूर्व विश्वैकहिताय महितं सुरैः ॥ ९etc.
Ends — fol. 1986
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