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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
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विजयचन्द्रचरित्र (विजयचन्दचरिय) No. 678
Vijayacanbdracaritra (Vijayacandcariya)
1317 1884-87
Size - 117 in. by41 in.
Extent -- 77 folios; 17 lines to a page; 56 letters to a line. Description - Country paper thin, rough and white; Jaina Devanāgar i
characters with occasional पृष्ठमात्राs; sufficiently big, quite legi. ble, fairly uniform and good hand-writing; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink; red chalk used; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin; in the centre of the num. bered and unnumbered sides as well, there is some space kept blank, so that it forms a design; yellow pigment used for making corrections; edges of a number of foll. more or less gone; condition on the whole tolerably fair; completes com. posed in Samvat 1127.
Age - Old. Author - Mahattara Condraprabha, pupil of Abhayadeva Suri. Subject — Life of Vijayacandra, an omniscient personage This work
deals with eight kinds of worship. Begins -- fol. la
ए६०॥ नमः श्री सर्वज्ञाय ॥ पणमह तं नाहिसुयं सुरवहसंकंतलोयण सहस्सं कमलवणं विरायइ निवनिवहं जस्स पय जुयाल ॥१ नमिरसुरासुरसुंदरिभालयलगलंतकुसुमकयपूयं । पणमह जयसिरिनिलयं सेसजिणाणं च पयकमलं ।। २ etc. निसुगउ सुएणो तह । दुज्जणो विगुणदो सगहण गयचित्तो।
सिरिविजयचंदचरियं परितुठ्ठिनिबंधणं भणिमो ॥ ६ etc. Ends — fol. 770
सिरिविजयवंसमइहा वहस्स सिरि अमयदेवसूरिस्स । सीसेण तस्स रईयं । चंदप्पहमहयरेणेयं ॥ १० रइयं वित्थर रईयं चरियं सिरिविजयचंदकेवलिणो । गाहाछंदनिबद्धं । भवियाण विबोहणट्ठाए ॥ ११
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