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The Svetambara Works
वर्धमानदेशना
Vardhamānadeśanā
324 No. 645
A: 1882-83 Size -98in. by 4g in. Extent -180-1-3-1 - 175 folios; 15 lines to a page; 38 letters to a
line. Description - Country paper thin and greyish ; Devanāgari characters
with occasional पृष्ठमात्राs: big, clear and fair hand.writing: borders ruled in two lines, in black ink; red chalk and yellow pigment used; a white paste, too%; a piece of white paper of the size of a fol. pasted to fol. [a; fol. 1a blank; fol. 6th slightly damaged in the body; a major portion of foll. 360 and 66a kept blank; fol. 59a 79a, 814, etc. entirely blank; so are foll. 64a, 749, 754, 784; contains marginal notes; foll. 7, 94-96 and 178 lacking; a table of contents so far as the narratives are concerned is written on fol. 1806; almost
complete. Age - 1609? Author - Srutavardhana śubhavardhana Gaņi, pupil of Sadhuvijaya
Gași of the Tapāgaccha. Subject - The work narrates the events which made Kamadeva and
others to accept Jainism. The 10 śrāvakas are: आनन्द, कामदेव, चुलिणीपित, सुरादेव, कुल्लकशतक, कुम्भकोल, सहालपुत्र,
महाशतक. Begins -- fol. 16 (Text)
॥६०॥ श्रीगुरुभ्यो नमः। वीरजिणेदं देविंदवंदिरं वंदिऊण जिभामाहं। सिरिणाअमगणहरं अजसुहम्मं सुहम्मं च ॥१॥ सपरजणबोहणत्थं सत्तमअंगाउ निमगुरुपसाया।
आणंदप्पमुहाणं चरित्रं सद्ढाणं बुच्छामि ॥२॥ etc. Ends - fol. 180a
श्रीहिरण्यहरमहास्थाने । श्रीमहानिधानभुवनेः (?) श्री ज्योगिनीपत्तिनें । श्रीअंबिकाराज्ये शुभं भवतु ।
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