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The svetāmbara Worke
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सुकृतसागर [8594a7st] No. 838
Sukrtasāgara [ Jhāñjhaņaprabandha ]
650
1884-86
Size — 101 in. by 43 in.
Extent -- 36 folios; 14 lines to a page ; 40 letters to a line.
Description - Country paper thin, tough and greyish; Jaina Deva
nāgari characters with frequent qghtas; sufficiently big, quite legible, uniform and very good hand-writing: borders ruled in three lines in red ink; 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; yellow pigment used for making corrections, bits of paper pasted to some of the foll., edges of several foll. partly worn out; condition on the whole tolerably good; complete; eight Tarangas in all. The extent of each of them is as under:
Taranga
foll. ja to 50
50 to 96 9a to 136 136 to 19a 190 to 236
236 to 266 VII
266 to 296 VIII
30a to 362 Total extent 1456 verses in Sanskrit. fol. 360 blank except that पो०१०४ प्रति ९ written on it.
Age - Pretty old. Author -- Ratnamaņdana Gaņi, pupil (?) of Nandiratna. Subject - A story of Jhāñjhaņa, son of Psthvidhara (Pethada). An
abridgement by this very author is Pșthvidharaprabandha. Begins — fol. 1a 1180 11
कल्पद्रव इवेष्टं वः कुर्वतु परमेष्ठिनः । पुष्पपल्लवकिंजल्कच्छदषट्पदसुंदराः ॥१
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