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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
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हनूमश्चरित्र
Hanūmaccaritra
1501 No. 1152
1886-92 Size - 108 in. by 5 in. Extent -79 folios%3 11 lines to a page; 32 letters to a line. Description - Country paper thick, tough and white; Jaina Deva
nagari characters; big, quite legible, uniform and good handwriting: borders ruled in two lines and edges in one, in red ink; daodas written in red ink; yellow pigment used for making corrections ; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin; a few in both; fol. 1a blank; in the left-hand margins, on foll. 1band 20, the title is written as हनुमानच०; white paste too, used; condition very good; complete; composed in Broach ( Bhrgukaccha); 12 sarges (Granthagra 2000 ) in all.
Sanskrit verse. Age -Samvat 1890. Author-Brahma Ajita. Subject - Life of Hanumat. He attained salvation in that very birth. Begins — fol. 16
॥ ॐ नमः सिद्धेभ्यः ॥ सद्बोधसिंधुचंद्राय सुव्रताय जिनेशिने ॥ सुव्रताय नमो नित्यं धम्मंशम्मार्थसिद्धये ॥१॥ वृषभाय जिनेंद्राय ॥ वृषाय परमेष्ठिने ॥ नित्यं स्वान्यप्रकासाय नमस्तात्ते सुतायिने ॥ २ ॥ नम श्रीचंद्रनाथाय । सर्वज्ञाय शिवाप्तये ॥
अमंदशर्मकंदाय कंदाय परमात्मने ॥ ३ ॥ etc. fol. 2b लक्षणे च्छंदसाहित्ये किंचिन्नास्ति प्रगल्भता
श्रीहनूमत्कुमारस्य कीर्तनं कीयंते कथं ? २९ ॥ Ends - fol. 79a
इदं श्रीशैलराजस्य चरितं दुरितापहं रचितं भृगुकछ( च्छा)च(प)श्रीनेमिजिनमंदिरे । ९५ ॥ धर्मार्थी लभते वृषंधनयुतो वृद्धिचनिरवोधनं पुत्रार्थी सुकुलोचितं च तनयं कामश्च कामी लभेत् ।।
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