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The Digambara Works
ज्ञानवा(न् ज्ञानदानेन निर्भयो()भयदानतः । अन्नदानात्सुखी नित्यं निर्याधी भेषजाद्भवेत् ॥ १॥ छ ।
926
कर्णामृतपुराण
Karņāmrtapurāņa No. 928
1892-95 Size - 12 in. by 5g in. Extent - 125 folios; 13 lines to a page; 36 letters to a line.
Description-Country paper thick, tough and white%3 Jaina Deva.
nagari characters; big, quite legible, uniform and beautiful hand-writing: borders ruled in two lines and edges in one, in red ink; foll. numbered in both the margins 3; fol. 1a blank, numbers for the verses, their dandas and the puşpikās at the end of every skandha are written in red ink; yellow pigment used while making corrections; in the left-hand margin, the title is mentioned as cortant; horsocopic kaņdalis and the like are given in the margin on foll. 3a, 30, 40, 40, 5a and 50; condition very good; complete; the entire work is divided into 24 skandhas.
Age - Samvat S. Y. 1824. Author - disciple of Keśavasena Krsəadāsas Sena) Subject - Life of Rājā Karņa and connected history of Lord Neminā
tha's time. Begins - folk 10 ॥ ॐ॥
ॐ नमः सिद्धेभ्यः ॥ लीलावासमलक्षं च श्रीपति परमेश्वरं शुलक्षं ज्ञानिनां वंदे पुरुं पावनशाशनं १ मातरं जगतां ज्ञान विधानपरमोदयां ।
ध्यायामि मनसि प्रायो गिरं श्रीशर्महेतवे ॥२ ।। etc. Ends-fol. 124b
भाकर्णयंति खलु ये सुनरा नतांग्यः श्रीकर्णभूपतिपुराणमिदं पवित्रं
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