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685j
The Svetämbara Works
Extent = 69 folios; 15 lines to a page: 52 to 55 letters to a line.
Description - Country paper somewhat thick, rough, tough and white;
Jaina Devanagari characters with occasional पृष्ठमात्राs; small perfectly legible, uniform and very beautiful hand-writing; borders ruled in three lines in red ink; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin; foll. 18424 repeated; in the centre of the numbered and unnumbered sides as well, there is some place kept blank, so that it forms a design ; yellow pigment used for making corrections%3; the first fol.. is missing; so both the text and the commentary begio abruptly; they, however, go up to the end; condition very good ; 19 cantos in all.
Age - Pretty old. Author - Śrl Vallabha pupil of Jñānavimala Upādhyāya. Author of the Comm. - Meghavijaya, pupil of Krpavijaya Gapi. Subject -- The tex deals with the biography and glorification of Vijaya.
devasūri.
Begins ( Comm.) - fol. 2a
ज्ञेयमत्र भव्ययोपमापदयोः प्रयोगे "सदृशं त्रिषु लिंगेषु सर्वासु च विभक्तिषु वचनेषु यन्न व्येति तदव्येयं १"
इत्युक्तत्वात् यथा अव्ययशब्दो लिंगादिषु कदाऽपि न व्येति तथा एतच् श्रीविजयदेवमाहात्म्यनामकं काव्यमपि स्वस्तिमत्वे कर्तृश्रोत्रऽध्येतृप्रभृतीनां स्वस्तिककर्तृत्वे च न व्यतीति कवेरऽभिप्रायः पुनः कथंभूतं etc.
Ends (Text) - fol. 686
मात्मार्थसिद्धिः किल कस्य नेष्टा सा तु स्तुतेरेव महात्मनां स्यात् भाभाणको (5)पि प्रथितस्त्रिलोके 'गंगा' हि कस्यापि न पैतृकीयं २०१ तस्मान्मया केवलमर्थसिध्यै जिहापवित्रीकरणाय यद् वा इति स्तुतः श्रीविजयादिदेवसूरि समं श्रीविजयादिसिंहः २०२
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