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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
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इति सीपलविषये वीरसेनकुसुम श्रीमहासतीचउपई समाप्ता संवत १७२६ वर्षे माहसुदि १४ दिनि लिखित पंडित श्री ५ श्री ॥
श्रीथीतेजसुंदर गणिसिष्य मुनिमतिसुंदरेण 'जयतारण ' मध्ये | सुवं भवतुः ॥ छ ॥ ॥ श्री ॥
Reference It seems that this work is not noted in Jaina Gurjara Kavio. In its Vol. III, pt. 1, pp. 931-932 extracts Virasena. katha are given. See also Vol. I, p. 451. Is this narrative pertinent ?
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No. 705
Size 10 in. by 4 in.
Extent - 3 folios; 15 lines to a page; 46 letters to a line. Description-Country paper thin, tough and whitish; Jaina Deva. nagari characters; sufficiently big, quite legible, fairly uniform and good hand-writing; borders ruled in three lines in red ink; 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 pattern; red chalk used to mark out the numbering of the verses; edges of each and every fol. more or less gone; condition on the whole tolerably good; complete; 157 Slokās.
Age Pretty old.
Author - Haribhadra? (Not available in the MS).
Subject A story of Rajarși Virangada, son of Sūrāngada. The efficacy of merit is pointed out here.
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Virāngadakatha
1126
1884-87
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