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jaina Literature and Philosophy [1090 चैत्यालये पण्डितजी-श्रीनानिगदासजीत्कवस्य शिष्येण वषतरामेणेदं लिखितम् वरांगचरित्रं ॥ ॥ शुभं भूयात् ॥ लेखकपाठकयोमंगलावली भूयात्[:]
वराङ्गचरित्र
Varāñgacaritra
1203 No. 1090
1891-95 Size - 11} in. by 4} in. Extent -69 folios; 9 lines to a page; 36 letters to a line. Description-Country paper thick, rough and white%3 Jaina Deva.
pagari characters; big quite legible, uniform and very good hand-writing%3; borders not ruled; foll. numbered in both the margins; rest, in the right-hand margin oply; yellow pigment used for making corrections%3; fol. 12b has only one line written to it; it is continued on fol. 134%; black ink applied on fol. 69b to score out some words; edges of the last fol. slightly gone ; condition on the whole good; extent 1383 Slokas.
Age -- Samvat 1827. Author--- Vardhamāna. For other particulars see the preceding entry. Begins-fol. 1a
॥ श्रीसरस्वत्यै नमः॥
जिनस्य संज्ञानमयैकदर्पणे etc. as in the preceding entry. Ends - fol. 696
स्वस्ति श्री मूल 'संघे etc. upto त्रयोदशमः सर्गः ॥ छ | as in the preceding entry. This is followed by the lines as under :शुभं भवतु ॥ श्लोकसंख्या १३८२ एकत्र संवत् १८२७ का पौसमासे शुक्लपक्षे सप्तम्यं दिवसे ॥७॥ ... (letters blurred ).... प्यकृतापठनहेतवे इदं शास्त्रं ॥
ज्ञानवान् ज्ञानदानेन निर्भयो(5)भयदानतः भनदानात् सुखी नित्यं निाधिभै(मैं)षजाद भवेत् ॥१॥
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