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Age -- Samvat 1743.
Author
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Ends
Subject - Life of Lord Śāntinātha in Sanskrit prose. His earlier 12 births are here described.
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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
Bhavacandra Suri, pupil of Jayacandra Suri of Rākā pakṣa (i. e. Pūrnimā gaccha ).
fol. 262b
॥ शारदायै नमः ॥
प्रणिपत्यातः सर्वान् वाग्देवीं सद्गुरु ( नपि )
( गद्य) बंधेन वक्ष्यामि श्रीशांतिचरितं मुदा ॥ १ ॥ etc.
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यस्योपसर्गाः स्मरणे प्रयान्ति विश्वेयदीपाश्च गुणा न मांति ॥
मृगांकलक्ष्माकनकस्य शांतिः
को संघस्य शांतिः स करोतु शांतिः ॥ ११ ॥
इति श्री श्री श्रीभावचंद्रसूरिविरचिते गद्यबंधे श्रीशांतिनाथचरि द्वादशभववर्णनो नाम षष्टः प्रस्तावः ॥
॥ श्रीशांति चरित्र परिपूर्णमभूत् ॥ ॥ छ ॥
ग्रंथाग्रंथ १०००४ यावत् ॥ || संवत् १७४३ वर्षे पौषशुद्धाऽष्टम्यां वौ लिखितमिदं ॥ ॥ शुभं भवतु ॥ ॥ श्री ॥ ॥ छ ॥ श्री ॥ छ ॥ श्री ॥
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as No. 19 from Bhāvnagar, also published by Hiralal Hamsaraj, Jamnagar in A. D. 1924. The Gujarati translation of this work is published by the above-mentioned Sabha in Samvat 1978.
For additional MSS. see B. B. R. A. S. (Vols. III. IV. p. 449 ) and Jina ratnakośa ( Vol. I, pp. 379-380). One of the MSS. is dated V. S. 1535 and written by the author himself.
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