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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
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Reference - It seems that this work is not noted in Jinaratnakosa
(Vol. I).
सुगन्धदशमीकथा
Sugandhadaśamikathā
1054 No. 1144
1887-91 Size --- 10g in. by 5 in. Extent -- 4 folios; 10 lines to a page; 28 letters to a line. Description-Country paper thin, tough and white; Jaina Devanagari
characters with rare पृष्ठमात्राs; big, quite legible, uniform and tolerably good hand-writing; borders ruled in two lines in black ink; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin; edges of each and every fol. more or less gone; condition on the whole
tolerably good; complete. Age - Old. Author - Not known. Subject -- Narrative in Sanskrit prose about the Vrata known as
Sugandhadasami. Begins - fol. 1a
ॐ नमो वीतरागाय ॥ सुगंधदशमीआख्यानकं यथा ।।
इह 'जंबू'द्वीपमाध्ये भरत 'क्षेत्रे 'राजग्रह 'नगरे राजा श्रीश्रेणिको नाम
भार्या तस्य चेल्लणा नाम पट्टराज्ञी etc. Ends - fol. 4b
कनककेतु तत्रागत्य राजाश्रीमरककेतु ऋषिरूपं नमस्कृत्य स्वपुत्राय राज्य दत्वा पितुः पार्श्वे दीक्षा गृहीता अत्युग्रोग्रतपश्चरण कृत्य केवलज्ञानमुत्पाद्य समवसरादिविभूतिशोभायमानगणधरदेवैः सेव्यमान: पश्वत् मोक्षं गतः ॥ छ ।
इति सुगंधदशमीकथा समाप्ता ॥ छ ॥ श्री ॥ आचार्य भुवनकीर्तेरिदं पुस्तकं चिरं नंदतु
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