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श्रीचोषचंदजी तत्शिष्य पंडितजी श्रीनानिगदासजी तशिष्य पंडित वषतरामलिपिकृतं शिष्यरिषबदासवाचनार्थ ।।
ज्ञानवान् ज्ञानदानेन निर्भयोभयदानतः अन्नदानात्सुषी नित्यं निर्व्याधी भेषजाद् भवेत् ॥१॥ Then in a later and different hand :जिनविवंजिणाठा रंजिणजान्नाप्रतिष्टतं दानपूजार्चा स(सिद्धांतं लेषनं सप्तक्षेत्रकं ॥२॥
सिद्धचक्रकथा
Siddhacakrakathā
1047 No. 1138
1887-91 Size --- 94 in. by 53 in. Extent -7 folios; 11 lines to a page; 30 letters to a line.
Description - Country paper thick, tough and white; Jaina Deva.
nagari characters%3 big, perfectly legible, uniform and very good hand-writing; borders not ruled; foll. numbered in both the margins; fol. la blank; a portion of the first line, dandas etc. written in red ink; edges etc. of the first fol. partly gonel condition on the whole good; complete.
Age-Samvat 1805.
Author- Subhacandradeva. Subject - Narratives in Sanskrit prose showing the prowess of
Siddhacakra bhakti (e.g. Nandisvara Astahnika katha).
Begins --- fol.1b॥ॐ॥
ॐ नमो वीतरागाय नमः ॥ प्रणम्य परमात्मानं । जगदानंददायकं । सिद्धचक्रकथां वक्ष्ये । भव्यानां शुभहेतवे ॥१॥ अथेहं जंबूद्वीपे सुदर्शनमेरौः दक्षिणस्यां दिशि भरतक्षेत्रे । श्रीमार्यखंडे । अयोध्या नाम नगरी। ete.
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