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The Svetambara Works
307
Extent - 349 folios; 3 to 6 lines to a page; 14-17 letters to a line.
Description - Country paper thin and white; Devanagari characters
with occasional पृष्ठमात्राs; small, clear and good hand-writings borders ruled in four lines in black ink; it is a faret MS; red chalk and yellow pigment used; foll 1a and 349 blank; edges of the first fol. slightly worn out; about a quarter of the second fol. gone ; foll. 17, 152-159 torn to a smaller or greater extent; several foll. worm-eaten; some badly; both the text and the commentary complete.
Age - Fairly Old.
Author - Pandita Devavimala Gani (Tapa Gaccha), pupil of Simha.
vimala Gaņi is auther of both the text as well as the autoexplanation.
Subject - Life of Hiravijaya Sūri. The text is explained by means of
an auto-commentary in Sanskrit named as Sukhāvabodhā.
Begins (Text) - fol. 10
श्रीचिंतामणिनाथाय नमः । ॐ नमः॥ श्रियं स पार्थाधिपतिः प्रदिश्यात्: सुधाशनाधीशवतंसितांघ्रिः । जगनिदिध्यासुचरित्रिमूर्ति
यत्कीर्तिरासीत्रिदशस्त्रवती ॥१॥ Begins (Comm.)- fol. 10
श्री चिंतामणि पार्श्वनाथाय नमः ॐ नमः ।।।। श्रेयाश्रीजयमंगलैकनिलयः संकल्पकल्पद्रुमः ।। भूयाद् भूरिविभूतये स भगवान् श्रोपावचिंतामणिः । भव्यानां दशदिग्भुवां प्रणमतां मन्ये निहंतुं तमो बिभ्राणा दशतां बभुः क्रमनखा यस्यार्भभास्वविषः ॥१॥ श्री चिंतामणि 'पार्श्वमीहितकर चिंतामणीव नृणां । सिद्धि श्रीपरिरंभिणं प्रणिदधे विश्वत्रयोनायकं । सांद्रानंदमरंदसुंदरहदभोजन्मलीलालसां। हंसीवद् विधिना पुनः प्रविदधे वाग्वादिनीदेवतां ॥२॥ स्वोपज्ञहीरसौभाग्यकाव्यस्याव्यासशालिनी । कुर्वे वृत्ति विदग्धानां गित्यथविबोधिका ॥३॥
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