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The Śvetāmbora Works
वत्सराजकुमारकथानक
Vatsarājakumārakathānaka
1335 No. 640
1887-91 Size - 10F in. by 4g in. Extent - 23-1=22 folios; 15 lines to a page ; 42 letters to a line. Description - Country paper; thick, rough, tough and greyish; Jaipa
Devanagari characters with frequent पृष्ठमात्राsbig, perfectly 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 margin; in the centre of the numbered and unnumbered sides as well, there is mostly a square space kept blank; yellow pigment used for making corrections; the
fol. 181 missing, otherwise complete; condition very good. Age -- Pretty old. Author - Not known. Subject — A story of Vatsarāja in Prakrit. Begins -- fol. 2a
तहवि हु गुणेहिं जिटठो होउ इयो वच्छराउ सिनिवो ॥ २० इय जणबायं सोउं एगे तां संतिणा समं मंतं ।
काऊण देवराउ गिन्हइ गयउ रयसंघायं ।। ३१ etc. Ends - fol. 23a
दाणाई धम्मस्स वि ता जइ भो इत्तियं फलं जायं तो रुद्वविरइ रूवस्स होइ नणु सव्व पडिवन्न । तो तत्थे व पयत्तो कायब्बो होइ बुद्धिमंतीहिं जिणभणियविहाणेण न अनहा मुक्खहेउ त्ति ॥
इति दानादिधर्मेषु अप्रमत्तस्य दुर्गापदोऽपि सुखपर्यवसान : संपद्यते इत्ये(त्य )र्थसंसूचकं पूर्वजन्मसुराभिधानं ॥
श्रीवत्सराजकुमारकथानकं समाप्त ।। छ ।।
शुभं भवतु ॥ श्रीः ॥ Reference - For a comparison see the following works :
(1) TEATIFTRAT in Prakrit having an extant of 425 $lokas.
Is this work same as one noted here? (2) in Sanskrit by Sarvasundara Suri.
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