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Description-Country paper somewhat thick, rough, tough and white%3B
Jaina Devanagari characters; sufficiently big, quite legible and tolerably fair hand-writing; borders indifferently ruled in three lines in black ink; red chalk used; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin ; in the centre of the pumbered and unnumbered sides as well, there is some space kept blank so that it forms a design; fol. 8b blank; some of the foll. slightly worm-eaten; some have their edges partly gone; condition on the whole tolerably good; complete; composed in Samvat
1567 in Trambavati (Cambay). Age - Pretty old. Author -- Lāvaṇyasamaya, pupil of Samayaratna, and descendant of
Somasundara Sūri of the Tapā gaccha. Subject - Life of Surapriya who attained omniscience. Begins --fol. 10 ॥ ६० ॥
'राजगृह' रुलीभामणुं । 'मुगध ' देसि सिणगार। पुहता स्वामी वीर जिण । श्रेणीक हरष अपार ॥ १॥ रूप कणय मणि के रमु । त्रिण गढ देव रचंति ।
चिहुं दसि छन सोहामणां । सिंघासण झलकंति। (२) etc. Ends-fol. 8a
संवत पनरस तसठा (१५६७) । आसो सुदि रविवार । रचिउ चरिउं चि(च)रित्रि सोहामणुं । 'बंबावती' मज्झारि ॥ ९९ ॥ श्रीयंभणसुपसाउ लइ । रास रचिउ मनरंगि । 'दूहा' बंधई बांधीउ । उलट आणी अंगि । १०० । 'तप 'गच्छ गुरु गोयमसमु । सोमसूं(सुंदरि(र)सूरिराय । समयरतन सुहगुरजयु । प्रणमी तेहना पाय । १०१। कांई कविति केलवण । काई सासमविचार । गायु सुरप्रिय केवली । गुरुसरसति आधारि । १०२ । इति सुरप्रीयरास समाप्तः॥ ऋषिसूरवर्द्धनलिषितं ।
श्री गुडी' पार्श्वनाथाय नमः । Reference --For extracts and additional MS. see Jaina Gurjara
Kavio (Vol. I, pp.75-76).
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