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इति श्रीमंध्यरस्वांमनी तवनषत्रीसी संपूर्णः ॥ ११ ॥ Reference -- For extracts and additional MSS, see Jaina Gurjara
Kavio,
सीमन्धरजिनस्तवन
Simandharajinastanavana (सीमन्धरस्वामीवीनति)
(Simandharasvāmivinati बालावबोधसह
with Bālāvabodha
730 No. 832
1899-1915 Size - 108 in. by 4g in. Extent -- 25 folios; 4 lines to a page; 28 letters to a line. Description - Country paper thick, tough and white; Jaina Deva
nāgari characters with rare q ars; this MS. contains the text and the interlinear Bālāvabodha; the former written in very big, quite legible, uniform and very good hand-writing: same is the case with the latter except that it is written in smaller hand-writing; borders ruled in three lines and edges in two, in red ink; red chalk profusely used%3; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin; fol. 1a blank; so is the fol. 25b3; edges of a few foll. slightly gone; the text complete; 125 verses in all and 11 dhālas; Bălāvabodha ends on fol. 23a;
so incomplete? Age - Samvat 1777. Author of the text - Nyāyaviśārada Nyāyācārya Yašovijaya Gaộl. For
his life and works see Yasodohana. Author of the Balavabodha -- Same (?) as above. Subject - A request to Simandharasvamin. For details see Yasodohana. Begins (Text) - fol. 10 ए ६० ॥
स्वामि सीमंधर वीनती ।। सांभलो माहरी देवरे । ताहरी आण हुं सिर धरूं भादरं ताहरी सेवरे ॥१॥ कुगुरुना वासना पांसमां । हरिणं परि जे प(पा)म्या स्वामी० लोकरे। तेहनें शरण तुझ विण नहीं ॥ टलवले बापडा फोकरे ॥२॥ etc.
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