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सुमित्रचरित्र
Sumitracaritra (सुमित्रकुमार रास)
[Sumitrakumārarāsa ]
51 No. 849
1877-78 Size -94 in. by 4g in. Extent - 16 folios; 15 lines to a page; 38 letters to a line.
Description-Country paper thin, tough and white; Jaina Devanagarl
characters with occasional पृष्ठमात्राs; sufficiently big, quite legible, uniform and good hand-writing; borders ruled in three lines in red ink; dandas written in red ink; red chalk used; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin; in the lefthand margin, the title is written as सुमित्र कु. रा.; 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; fol. la blank; so is the fol. 160; condition very good; complete; composed in Samvat 1567 in Gujarati language.
Age-Samvat 1653.
Author - Dharmasamudra Gaņi, pupil of Vacaka Vivekasangha and
descendant of Jinaharsa Sūri of the Kharatara gaccha.
Subject - Life of Sumitra. Begins - fol. 1b ॥ ए ६०॥
पणमि सुमणावयण तणु करी । पहिलउ पढम जिणंद । जसु पयपंकय पूजतां पूजई परिमाणंद ॥१॥ जगमंडलि जसु निजपइ । योगीसर इकचित्ति ।
सा सारदसंधुणावि करि । विरचिसु सुमित्रचरित्र । २ । etc. Ends - fol. 156
भो भवीयणं इम संभलु । दांन तणइ परमाणि । इह भवि पर भवि सुख संपजइ । सासय सुख शिवठाणि । २८ ।
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