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Jaina Literature and Philosuphy
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Extent -402 folios; 5 lines to a page; 32 letters to a line. Text. 6 , , 38
Tabba. Description - Country paper somewhat thick, rough and white; Jaina
Devanāgari characters; this MS. contains the text as well as the interlinear Tabbā; the former written in big, quite legible, uniform and very good hand-writing; the same is the case with the latter except that it is written in slightly smaller handwriting; borders ruled in two lines and edges in one, in red ink; red chalk used for marking out the numbering of the verses; some of the foll. numbered in both the margins; otherwise all the foll. numbered in the right-hand margin; fol. 1a blank; edges and corners of the first and the last foll. gone3B condition on the whole good; both the text and the Tabbā complete%3; sixteen chapters.
Age - Samvat 1782. Author - Brabma Nemidatta. Subjeci - Life of Bhagwan Neminātha the 22nd Tirthamkara depicted
in Sanskrit verse.
Begins (Text) - fol. 10 ॥ॐ॥
ॐ नम सिद्धेभ्यः ॥ श्रीमन्नेमिजिनं नत्वा । लोकालोकप्रकाशक तत्पुराणमहं वक्ष्ये । भव्यानां सौख्यदायकं ॥ १॥ नमद्देवेंद्रमौलीनां । लसत्कांतिसरोजले। यस्य पादद्वयं प्राप्य । प्रोलसत्कमलश्रियं २ ॥ ये नेमिद्धर्मचक्रस्य । नेमिर्जातप्रवर्त्तने ।
तं स्तुवे भुवनांभोज । भास्कर नेमिनायकं ॥ ३ ॥ etc. Begins - (Tabba) fol. 1b ॥ ॐ ॥
प्रणम्य परया भक्त्या श्रीजिनं नेमिनायकं वक्ष्येहं बालबोधाय आत्मसत्त्यानुसारत १ जिनेंद्रनेमिनाथस्य पुराणं कविना... ...थं लेशमात्रेण रामजी ब्रह्महेतवे २ श्रीमंत कहतां सोभावंत श्रीनेमिनाथजिनप्रतई नमाने केहवाछै नेमनाथलोक ४५ लाष मनुष्य क्षेत्र अलोकना प्रकाशक तथा च तै पुराणप्रतई अहं etc.
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