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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
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Extent - 8 folios ; 16 lines to a page; 42 letters to a line.
Description - Country paper thin, tough and white; Jaina Devanāgari
characters; small, quite legible, fairly uniform and good hand. writing; borders ruled in 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 ; yellow pigment used for making corrections; condition very good; complete.
Age - Samvat 1608. Author - Bhavaka, pupil of Gunamānikya of the Brahmana gaccha. Subject – Story of Hariscandra ( Haricanda ) in Gujarati poetry. Begins --- fol. 1a ॥ ॐ ॥
सरसति सामिणि वीनवू । त्रिभोवनजननी माय । रचउं प्रबंध हरिचंद तणउ । वाणी ता पसाय ॥१ कृपा करु मझ स्वामिनी । वंछितदायक देवि । एक मनु नितउ लगूं । सदा करं तर सेव ॥ २ etc.
Ends - fol. 8b
एह प्रबंध श्रवणि श्रुणि । भणसि जे नरनारि । तेह धरि नव निधि । अंगणि पामि सुष संसारि ॥ ६९ ......हरिचंदराजा चुउपई प्रबंध सपूर्ण ॥ संवत् १६०८ वर्षे पोस सुदि ८ सोमे ॥ चेलीसिधा लण्यतु ॥ श्रीसारदाइ नमः ॥ श्रीः ॥ श्रीः॥ Then in a different hand we have :
माटी अदरि परी नीपनी । बिजरंग भागासी। तीन पुरष सुवि लूधी । अछइ लोक जाणइ 'मस 'वासी। जमण जिमइ नीर आहारइ । चलूनलीइ आ दिवी।
महउ पूछण कपडा दीता । आपइ नी गलकरि बइ अट्टी ॥२॥ दोति ॥ Reference - For extracts and additional MSS. see Jaina Gurjara
Kavio (Vol. I, pp. 171-172 and Vol. III, pt. 1, pp. 633-634.
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