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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
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Extent – 8 folios; 16 lines to a page ; 35 letters to a line. Description - Country paper very thin, tough and white; Jaina Deva
pāgari characters; small, quite legible and tolerably good hand-writing; borders ruled indifferently in three to four lines in black ink; red chalk used; 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; a bit of paper pasted to fol. 86; edges of several foll. worn out; condition on the whole tolerably good; complete; ending on foll. 8a composed in V. S. 1571; 5 Dhālas in all; 238 verses. This MS. contains in addition, some Gita which begins on fol. 8a and ends on fol. 8b. This latter work, it seems, is
written in a different hand. Age - Old. Author -- Mela Sanghapati (?) pupil of Munisundara Surl. Subject - Story of Sudarśana in Gujarati poetry. It illustrates the
prowess of chastity.
Begins - fol. 14 ए॥६०॥
पहिलउं प्रणमि सु अनुक्रमिए जिणवर चउवीस । पच्छइ शासनादेवताएतीहं नमउं सीस।। समरी अ ( सासिणी) सारदेए सानिधि संभारउ । आगइ पालउ प्रतिप, ए कवि सिउ पकारहु १ तउ तूठी तत क्षण भणइ ए हुँ आविसु अंगि । श्रेष्टि सुदर्शनतणउ रास रचिज्यो मनरंगि ।। etc.
Ends-fol.
'तप' गच्छ गुरु गोअम समाए। मा० श्री श्री मुनिसुंदरसूरिसुणि० ॥ नामिइं सवि सिद्धि संपजइ ए। मा० दरीय पणासई दुरि । सुणिः ॥ ५२ तास तणई सेवकि रचिउ ए। मा० रास रूडउ ह्वदयरंगि सुणिक थापिउं सील सोहामणओए । मा० आनंद ऊपजइ अंगि सुणि० ५३ संवत पनर एकोत्तरइ (१५७१ ) ए मा०। जेठह चउन्धि विसुद्ध । पुष्य नक्षत्र गुरुवारिसिउं ए मा० चरित्र पुहविइं प्रसिद्ध सुणि० ॥ ५४ जांल गइ ' मेरु' महीधरू ए। मा० जां जल सायरपूर सु०। शीलसुदर्शनगाई ए । मा० हुंती हंप गनीधूलि सुणि० ॥ ५५
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