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हंसराज-वत्सराज-कथा
Hamsaraja-vatsaraja-katha [चमत्कारकथा]
[ Camatkārakathā]
365 No. 872
A 1882-83 Size - 103 in. by 4g in. Extent – 14 folios; 22 lines to a page; 55 letters to a line. Description - Country paper thin, tough and greyish; Jaina Deva
nagari characters%3; very small, quite legible, uniform and good hand-writing; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink; foll. numbered in both the margins; some of them in left-hand margins; the title is written as हंस. बच्छराज चरित्र; हंस० वच्छरा. चरित्रं etc.; edges of a few foll. gone%3; condition on the whole good; complete ; five višrāmas in all; the extent of each of them is as under :Viśrāma I
1a to 20
2b to 30 III
3b to 7a 7a to 90 9b to 146
II
IV
Age - Old. Author - Rajakirti, pupil of Ramalabha Gani. Subject - Story of Hamsarāja and that of Vatsarāja in Sanskrit prose. Begins - fol. 1a ॐ॥
श्रीपार्श्वनाथाय नमः। स्मृत्वा श्रीभारती देवीं । नत्वा च शिरसा गुरून् । चमत्कारकरी कथां । गद्यबंधेन करोम्यहं ॥१॥ श्रीपंचपरमेष्टिनमस्कारमहात्म्यं भो भव्यलोकाः ।
भादरं कृत्वा श्रूयतां । etc. Ends - fol. 140
सु(शुद्ध व्रतानि पालय( यि )त्वा सम्यक्तया धर्म आराध्य जिनोदितं अंते अनशनेनाराधनया मृत्वा देवौ जातौ प्रथमदेवलोके । कियद्भवांतरे तु सिद्धिसौख्यमवाप्सतः ।।
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