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Reference — For extracts and additional MSS. see Jaina Gurjara
Kavio Vol. I.
सीतारामचतुष्पदी
Sitārāmacatuspadi (सीतारामचोपइ)
(Sitārāmacopai)
861 No. 827
1895-1902 Size - 10} in. by 47 in. Extent -106 folios; 13 lines to a page; 40 letters to a line.
Description -Country paper thin, tough and white; Jaina Devanagari
characters; big, quite legible and tolerably good hand-writing; borders ruled in three lines in black ink; all the four extreme edges bounded by one line in red ink; red chalk used; foll. numbered in both the margins; fol. la blank; one blank fol. attached to the last fol.; strips of white paper pasted to the last fol.; a piece of white paper pasted to fol. 1a; the first and last few foll. very much worm-eaten; condition tolerably fair ; complete; 9 khandas in all; the total extent 3704 blokas gāthās); composed in V. S. 1687 at Medatā.
Age - Samvat 1697. Author - Upādhyāya Samayasundara. He has mentioned here his four
works which were composed prior to this work. For his additional works see his collected works published from
Bikaner by Agarchand Nahata. Subject - Life of Sitā. Begins-fol. 10 ॐ॥
स्वस्ति श्रीसुषसंपदादायक अरिहंत देव । कर जोडी तेहनई करुं । नमसकार नितमेव ॥१॥ निज गुरुचरणकमल नमुं । त्रिण्हि तत्त्व दातार | कीडीथी कुंजर कीयउ (?)। ए मुझ नइ उपगार ॥२॥ सपलं सरसति सामिनी एक करुं अरदास । माता देजे मुज्झ नई । वासू वचनविलास ॥३॥
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