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The Svetāmbara Works
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श्रोणिकरास
Śreņikarāsa
57 No. 783
1916-18 Size --- 94 in. by 4 in. Extent - 110 folios ; 13 lines to a page ; 28 letters to a line. Description-Country paper thin, tough and greyish; Jaina Deva
nägarl characters; big, fat, quite legible and tolerably good handwriting; borders ruled indifferently in three lines and edges in one, in red ink; dandas written in red ink; foll. num. bered in the right-hand margin; in the left-hand margins, the title is written as guita; red chalk used ; in some cases letters are blurred; edges of several foll. gone; those of the last fol, ratber more so that even some letters are gone; strips of paper pasted to fol, 10903; condition on the whole tolerably good; complete; composed at Cambay in V.S. 1682 in 1839 verses:
the entire work is divided into 7 kbandas. Age-Samvat 1798. Author-Rsabhadasa, a Jaina layman, son of Sangana, Sanghavi.
For his additional works see Jaina Gurjara Kavio (Vol. I).
They are as under :Subject - A story of Śreņika. For comparison the following works
may be consulted : श्रेणिकरास by ब्रह्मजिनदास (दिगंबर) (c. V. S. 1520) समरचन्द्र
(c. V. S. 1583) सोमविमलसूरि
in V. S. 1603 भीम भावसार
in V. S. 1621 नारायण वल्लभकुशल
in V. S. 1775 Begins - fol. 1a
ए ६० ॥ श्रीजिनाय नमः दूहा ॥ भादि अनादी सरस्वती। सदा लगेतु स्वाम सहोको सेवे सारदा । बाल करि तुझ ध्यांन । १। षट दरसणां तु षरी। ताहरे सघले वास । करो कृपा तो गाईई । नरश्रेणिकनो रास । २ । etc. तेणे कारण श्रेणीकनो रासो। जोही गावे कवीरीषभदासो
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