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172 Jaina Literature and Philosophy
[781 श्रीमतीकथा
Śrimatikatha
___1321(a) No. 781
1886-92 Size - 101 in. by 4g in. Extent - 31 folios; 7 lines to a page; 36 letters to a line.
Description - Country paper thin, tough and white; Jaina Devanāgari
characters; this MSS. contains the text and its interlinear Tabbā; the former witten in big, quite legible, uniform and very good hand-writing ; practically same is the case with the Tabbā except that it is written in smaller hand writing; borders ruled in two lines in red ink; red chalk used; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin; foll. 1a and 310 blank; strips of paper pasted to fol. 1a; condition on the whole good; complete; this work ends on fol. 69; this MS, contains in addition the following works ;
(1) शिवकुमारकथा टब्बा सहित No. foll. 6a to 10b (2) जिनदासकथा
" , 10a to 136 (3) चण्डपिङ्गलकथा
, , 13bto 170 (4) हुण्डककथा
, 176 to 210 (5) राजसिंहकुमारकथा
"2la to 31a Age -Not modern.
Author - Unknown. Subject — A story of Srimati, a Srāvikā. It points out the efficaey of
the 'Navakāra' mantra.
Begins - fol, 16
॥६०॥ श्रीगुरुभ्यो नमः ॥ नवकारइक्वक्खरणं पावं फेडेई सत्तअइराण पन्नासंघपएणं पणसइ सागरसमग्गेणं १ fol. 10 ॥ ६0 ॥ ऐं नमः
नवकार मंत्रना ध्यानना महिमा उपरि कथा etc. Ends (Text) -- fol. 50
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