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821] The Svetāmbara Worke
219 सिंहासनबत्तीसी
Simhāsanabattisi
857 No.821
1895-1902 Size -- 10% in. by 44 in. Extent -- 118-1-1-1 = 115 folios; 9 to 12 lines to a page; 36 to 40
letters to a line.
Description - Country paper thin and white; Devanāgari characters;
bold, big, clear and good hand writing; borders ruled in three lines and edges in two, in red ink; red chalk used 3 white paste too; several foll. worm-eaten; foll. 1-24 numbered twice as usual; fol. 35th falsely numbered as 36th; hence the following numbered as 37, 38 etc; fol. 65th also numbered as 66th ; so the succeeding as 67, 68, etc; fol. 110th also numbered as 11lth; hence the following numbered as 112, 113 etc.; complete; composed in Samvat 1624.
Age - Not quite modern.
Subject - 32 stories narrated through the medium of the each of the
32 dolls in the throne of Vikrama in the court of king Bhoja ;
Gujrati version. Author-Hirakalasa, pupil of Harsaprabha of the Kharataragaccha.
He has composed Samyaktvakaumudi-rāsa.
Begins-fol.1a
दूहा। आराही श्रीऋषभ प्रभु युगलीधर्म निवार ।
कथा कहुं विक्रम तणी जसु साको विस्तार ॥ १॥ etc. Ends -fol. 1180
स्वामोदलीहुँ सथ सइमुख मान बोडीयो आपणे जि सास्त्र साथइहे विमिलितो तेहनि रती। थांपणो ए चरित सांभल जिय मानव दान । भापइ निज करइं ते पुण्यपसायै मुषीय थायै रिद्वि पामै बहु परई ।
इति श्री कलि 'युगप्रधानदानाधिकारश्रीविक्रमरायश्रीभोजनरेंद्र सिंहासणबत्तीसी चरि...।
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