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The Svetämbara Works
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Extent -- 10 folios: 8 lines to a page; 38 letters to a line.
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Description-Country paper thick and white; Devanagari characters%3B
big, legible and good hand-writing; borders ruled in two lines and edges in one in red ink ; this MS, contains both the text and its explanation in Gujarati written in a very small band and above the correponding portions of the text; both complete; the text foll. numbered as usual; fol. 1a blank; composed in V. S. 1822. Holika-caritra is composed by Bhattāraka Vādicandra.
Age - Samvat 1822.
Author - Bhattendrasāgara Gani pupil of Dhirasagara Gaņi, pupil
of Vinitasāgara, successor of Bhāvasãgara of Tapā gaccha.
Subject - The Sanskrit text deals witk Holirajahparvan. This is explain.
ed in Gujarati in the Tabbā. It is called Dhūleți to and
Dhūlapadavo; also. Begins ( Text ) – fol. 16
श्रीवर्द्धमानमानम्य सुरासुरनतक्रमं ।
वक्ष्ये होलिरज-पर्व संबंधप्रार्थितजन [:] ॥१॥ etc Begins (Comm.) - fol. 10
श्रीवर्द्धमानस्वामीनें नमीनें सुर जे देवता असुर जे विद्याधरें नमित
चरणकमल कहीस होलीरजपर्वनो वर्णन संबंधविस्तार लोकपते १ etc. Ends (Text) - fol. 100
द्विदस्त्रावसुचंद्रेब्दे मार्गशीर्षे सुपक्षके । दशम्यां कविवारेऽह्नि लिगि(पि?)चक्रे कथामिमां ॥ ३३ ॥ etc. सुरासुरनरा येषां बंदंति चरणक्रमं । तेषां श्रीधर्मसूरीणामाज्ञातं( तः ?) प्राप्यते मया ॥ ३५ ॥ श्रीमदूवीरसुधर्मजंबुप्रभवे पट्टावले शालिनी । यत्रादौ विज( ल )सत्तपाख्यगणपश्रीश्रीजगच्चंद्रत् । तरच्छे सुविदीतनिर्मलप्रभाधारी श्रीधर्मप्रभुः । राजते महिमंडले दिनपतिवत्तेजधारी स च ॥३६ ॥ श्रीभावसागरगुरोस्तत्पट्टे श्रीविनीतनामाख्यः । सच्छिष्यप्रवरपंडितनामा श्रीधीरसागरंगणिः ॥ ३७ ॥
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