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The Svetāmbora Works
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Extent - 6 folios; 23 lines to a page; 65-70 letters to a line. Description - Country paper very thin, tough and greyish; Jaina
Devanagari characters with occasional पृष्ठमात्राs; very small, quite legible ; fairly uniform and very good hand-writing; borders ruled in three lines in red ink: red chalk used%3; foll. numbered twice in the right-hand margin; once just in the beginning and once when the old numbering was going away as the corners were getting worn out; edges and corners of several foll. gone%; condition on the whole tolerably good; in the centre of the numbered and unnumbered sides as well, there is some space kept blank so as to form a design; complete; about 500 verses.
Age - Old. Author - Māņikyasundara, pupil of Merutunga Sūri of the Ascala
gaccha. Subject-A story of Sukaraja, who named Pundarika giri as • Satrufi.
jaya'.
For comparison see Sukarājakatha by Subhasila and an
anonymous one. Begins - fol. 1a
ए६०॥ श्री शत्रुजय'तीर्थेशः । श्रीयुगादिजिनेश्वरः । श्रियं दिशतु वो नित्यं नभ्रामरनरेश्वरः ॥१ येन 'शत्रुजये 'त्याख्या। 'पुंडरीक 'गिरेः कृता।
नृपस्य शुकराजस्य वक्ष्ये तस्य कथानकं ॥२ etc. Ends - fol. 60
शुकराजः सर्वदा श्री शत्रुजये' श्रीयुगादिदेवं नमस्कुर्वनखंडं राज्य पालयामास ।।
श्रीमेरुतुंगसुगुरुप्रणिधानतः श्रीमाणिक्यसुंदर इमां शुकराजसत्कां । नव्या कथां रचयति स्म सुविस्मयां श्री'शत्रुजया'ख्यगिरिगौरवगौरवर्णा ॥१ यावन् 'मेरु 'मही यावद् यावच्चंद्रदिवाकरौ। वाच्यमाना जनस्तावत् कथा( थाs) सौ लभतां प्रथाः ॥२
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