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The Digambara Works
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वर्धमानकथा
No. 1091
• Size - 104 in. by 48 in
Extent – 54-5–49 folios; 12 lines to a page; 36 letters to a line.
Description
Country paper thin and greyish; Devanagari characters; big, clear and fair band-writing, borders indifferently ruled in four lines in black ink; white paste used; red chalk, too; commences abruptly; edges of some foll. slightly damaged; portion of the 6th and 51st foll. worn out; a margin of the 7th fol. gone; fol. 7th seems to be numbered as 123rd; foll. 8-9, 24-25, 28, 39 missing: eleven chapters (samdhis); incomplete.
Vardhamānakathā
Jain Education International
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1204
1891-95
Age - Not quite modern.
Author – Not known ( ? Jayamitra ).
Subject - Life of Bhagvān Mahavira in Apabhramsa (poetry ).
Begins (Text) – fol. 1a
रायदोइय चित्तंत्तरिवि णमंसिय । वद्धमाणु जिणु हरिहि पसंसिय ॥ घत्ता ॥ इय वीरजिदिदो कुवलयचंदद्दो भणिय तिष्णि कल्लाई । हरिइंद मंसिय विवुपसंसिय दिंतु पंचकलाणइ ॥ २३ ॥ इय सिरिमाणवे पयडियचउवग्गमग्गरसभव्वे सेणिय अभय चरिते विरइय जयमित्त हल सुकइत्ते भवियणजणमणहरणे संधाहिवहो लिवम्मकडाहरणे ! वट्टमाण जिणकुमारत्तलीला वड णोणिरकवण कल्लाणु छवसूयणो णाम पंचमो संधि परिछेओ समत्तो ॥ संधि ॥
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