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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
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वज्रायुधकथा
Vajrāyudhakathā
170 No. 639
1872-73 Size - 103 in. 4g in. Extent -21-1= 20 folios; 17 lines to a page; 66 letters to a line. Description-Country paper; thin, tough and whitish; Jaina Devana
gari characters with frequent पृष्ठमात्राs, small, quite legible, uniform and very good hand-writing; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink; red chalk used; foll. numbered in the right-hand marging in the centre of the numbered and unnumbered sides as well, there is some space kept blank so that it forms a design; yellow pigment used for making corrections; edges of some of the foll. slightly gone; condition on the
whole good; incomplete, as the Ms. ends abruptly. Age - Pretty old. Author - Not known. Subject - A story of Vajrāyudha, son of king Kşemamkara and his
wife Ratna mālā. Vajrayudha became in course of time a Tirthamkara named as Santi,
Begins - fol. 1a
'जंबू' द्वीप 'पूर्व विदेहे' 'मंगलावती' विजये 'रत्नसंचय' पुरे क्षमेकर राजा रत्नमाला तस्य पत्नी । तयोः पुत्रः शांतिनाथजीववज्रायुधनामाऽभूत् । अन्यदा पारापता कांदशीक एकः शरणं कुमरस्य
प्राप्तः कथितं मा भैषी:। etc. Ends — fol. 216
प्राणा रक्षणीया : इत्युक्त राज्ञा स्वसुतो बहुसैन्यसहितः कुमरः प्रेषित:। अह दूर संपत्तो पंथे सिद्ध : पुरनयरबाहिमि । मुच्छानिमीलिअच्छो पडिओ सो रहस्सुवरि ॥१ तीमभिमखंधारे उच्छलिए कलयलं मि सहसंत्ति ।
fafoss erat g i ends abruptly. Reference It seems that this work is not mentioned in the Jina.
ratnakosa (Vol.I).
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