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Jaina Literature and Philosophy 1799 सीताचरित
Sitācarita (सीयाचरिय)
(Siyacariya)
825 No. 825
1899-1915 Size -- 103 in. by 4g in. Extent -8 folios ; 20 lines to a page; 54 letters to a line. Description --- Country paper very thin, tough and greyish; Jaina
Devanagari characters with occasional पृष्ठमात्राs; small, quite legible, fairly uniform and tolerably good hand-writing I borders ruled in three lines in red ink; red chalk used; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin ; in the centre of the numbered and unnumbered sides as well, there is some space kept blank so that it forms a design; complete ; 465 verses; condition very good ; the last two or three lines written
in a later and different hand. Age - Old. Author - Bhuvanatunga Sūri. Subject - Life of Sitā. Begins -fol. 1a || ॐ॥
जस्स पयपउम नहचंद जुन्हजलजालखा लियमालाई तिजयं पि सुईजायं तं मुणिसुव्वयजिणं नमिउं ॥१ तिजगचमक्कारकरं । मुणिसुव्वयतित्थलद्धमाहप्पं ।
सीयामहासईए । चरिअं कित्तेमि लवमित्तं ॥ २ etc. Ends -~-fol. 80
नाऊणं परिभाविऊण हियए सम्म इमं सव्वहा। अब्भक्खाण असंखदुक्खजणयं वज्जेह भन्वा जणा। सील सव्वगुणाण भूसणकरं निव्वाणसंपायगं ॥ फेडिज्जतमलं कलंकवियलं रक्खेह निञ्च तहा ॥ ६४ सील गुणसवणसंभूय । वरपवरमाणंदकारइयं । सीयाचरियं सिरिभुवणओगपयसाहगं होउं ॥ ४६५ ॥ इति सीयाचरियं समत्तं ॥ छ ॥ यावग्वेषः फणीभिर्वहति वसुमती यावदादित्यचंद्रावुद्योतेते नभोर्जगति विजयते शासनं जैनमत्र ।
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