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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
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Description-Country paper thin, rough and whitish; Jaina Deva.
nagari characters with frequent पृष्ठमात्राs; big, quite legible, uniform and beautiful hand-writing; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink; red chalk used; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin; fol. 1a blank; there is some space kept blank in the centre of the numbered and the unnumbered sides as well; in the left-hand margin, the title is written as सकोसलनी चोपई; edges of some of the foll. gone; condition
on the whole good; complete (?) Age - Pretty old. Author - Sādhu Munisara. Subject - A story of Sakosala (?) Begins -- fol. 16
॥ॐ श्रीवीतरागाय नमः। सहं ( ? )गुर(रु)वयण सांभलीजी हुउ मनि आणंद गुण समरूं हु तेहंना जीवाच्छिरोहिणवंद गुणे करिउ घउ अविवल भांण नारि दूहव्यउ अतिघणुंजी कोप्यउ नही यलगा सुजाण गुणे करिउ थउ अविचल भाण १
ए आंकणी 'कनकपुरी' नगरी भे(भ)लीजी वीरधवल तिहां राय
कमलप्रभा राणी सतीजी सकोसलउ सुतजाय २ etc. Ends - fol. 60
सालिभद्र धनउ किवनउ मूलदेवकुमार दान - विसेषि पर गट हुआ आलवेसर अवतार रे ४ हुसी० एहकं जांणो रूयडा प्राणी कीजइ पुन्यरुषा इ
साधु मुनिसरएणि परि बोलि दीधउं । लाभि भाइ रे ५ हुसीय० ॥ Reference --Cf. सुकोसोलनी चोपाइ (V. S. 1761 Kanhaji and one by
Amaravijaya in V. S. 1907. कीर्तिधर सुकोसलप्रबन्ध composed by Māna in V. S. 1617 may be dealing with the story of Sukosala. सुकोसलनी चोपइ by जगन (जगनाथ) in V. S. 1761 (auto-copy in Jaima Gurjarra Kavio Vol. III, 2. p. 1406)
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