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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
[1020
पाण्डवपुराण
Pāndavapurāņa
530 No. 1020
1884-86 Size -11 in. by 6in. Extent - 203 folios; 15 lines to a page ; 34 letters to a line. Description - Country paper somewhat thick, tough and white; Jaina
Devanāgari characters; big, quite legible, uniform and very good hand-writing; borders ruled in three lines and edges in in two, in red ink; numbers for the verses, their dandas and puspikās written in red ink; yellow pigment occasionally used for making corrections%3; foll. numbered in both the margins%3B in the left-hand margin the title is indicated as qi59.; bits of paper pasted to some of the foll.; condition on the whole good; foll. 1 to 36 missing; so this work begins abruptly with the 307th verse of the 4th parvan ; bowever, it goes up to the end; fall work has 25 cantos and 6700 granthagra; language
Sanskrit verse; composed in S. Y. 1657. Age - Samvat 1731. Author - Śribhūşaņa. Subject-Life history of Pandavas (Story of Mahabharata). Begins abruptly -- fol. 37a
द्वयोः श्रेण्योः प्रभुत्वंसः भुजन्नस्थात् खगाधिपः ॥ ददौ दानं कदाचिच्च मुनये मुक्तिकारणं ॥ ७ (i.e. 307) ॥ आश्चर्यपंचकं व्योम्नः तौ प्रापतुस्तथैकदा ॥
चारणोच्चवने विद्याधर श्री विजयो मुदा ॥ ८ ॥ etc. fol. 380
इति श्रीपांडवपुराणे शांतिनाथभवषटकवर्णनं नाम चतुर्थ पर्व ॥ ४ ॥ Ends -- fol. 2020
बिद्याविभूषोत्तमपट्टधारी ॥ शास्त्रस्य वेत्ता वरदिव्यवाणी ॥ जीयात्पृथव्यां जिनधर्मदाता ॥ श्रीभूषणोसौ यतिराट् नितातं ॥३
कृतं चरित्रं सुभपांडवानां ॥ भटोत्तमानां प्रवरं सुपुण्यं ॥ सुश्वादिभूषेण बिसुद्धबोधात् पुरातनं वीक्ष्य पुराणमेव ॥ ४॥
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