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The Svetāmbara Vorks
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Extent - 167 folios; 12 lines to a page; 35 letters to a line. Description-Country paper thin, tough and greyish; Jaina Deva
Dāgari characters with occasional qghiats; big, quite legible, uniform and very good hand-writing ; borders ruled in three lines and edges in one, in red ink; foll., dandas written in red ink; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin%3 strips of white paper pasted to fol. 1a and 10; a few foll. slightly torn; condition on the whole good; complete; the total extent 4500 Slokas; corrected by Samayamānikya.
Age-Samvat 1840.
Author - Devendra Sūri, pupil of Jagaccandra Sūri. Subject - Story of Sudarśanā in Prakrit. For comparison the follow.
ing works may be consulted :
सुदर्शन(मुनि)चरित्र by ब्रह्मनेमिदत्त __ चरित्र , सकलकीर्ति , , , विद्यानन्द
,, विश्वभूषण " (अपभ्रंश), नयनन्दिन्
Begins - fol. 16 ॥६ ॥
ॐ नमः ॥ श्रीसुव्रतजिनेंद्राय ॥ वंदितु ... जिणं । सदरिसणा ए पुरंमिलरुयच्छ । जह ... लिया विहारो । कराविउ किंपि तह वुत्थं (च्छं)।१। जह तीइ पढमजम्मे विजयाखयरी इमा ... उमप्पो
जहमासंति जिणगिहे पूर्य दटुं पुलइयेगा । २ । etc. Ends - fol. 167b
तप्पयभत्ता जगचंदसूरिणो तसिं दुनि वर सीसा। सिरिंदविंदमुणींदो तहा विजयचंदसूरिवरो । ५१ । इय सुदरिसणाइ कहां नाण तवञ्चरणकारणं परमं मूलकहानुहुमच्छा लिहिया देविंदसूरीहिं । ५२ । परसत्था बहुरयणा दोगग्वहरा सुवनलंकारा । सुनिहि ब्व कहांग सानंदउ विवुह स्सिया सुइरं । ४०५६ ॥ ग्रंथाग्रंथ १५००॥
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