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79.] The Svetāmbara Narratives
105 Begins.- fol. . ॥६ ॥
शासनदेवीय पाय प्रणमेवीय मझ मनि यह क्त(उ)माहलउ ए । मात सरसति तणइ सहीय सुपसाउलइ ।
गाइसिउं ऋषभवीवाहलउ ए | etc. Ends.- fol. Io इ(म श्री)मा(ना)भिन(न)दन दुरितष()डण जगत्रमंडण जिन
बा(व)रो। मह गुरु तणो सुपसाइ पामी गाईआ जगहितकरो यह धवल गाइ जिन आराहइ जेह नरनारी सदा ते सुगति जाइ सुखी थाइ बोलइ सेवक हम मुदा । ___10
१२।२४५ । इति श्रीरिषभदेवधवलबंध । Reference.- For extracts and additional Mss, see Jaina Gürjara
Kavio ( Vol. III, Pt. 1, pp. 582-584).
ऋषिकथानक
Rsikathānaka (इसिकहाणय)
( Isikahanaya) 15
1663 No. 79.
1891-95. Size.- 94 in. by 44 in. Extent.- 3 folios ; 15 lines to a page ; so letters to a line. Description.- Country paper thin, tough and white; Jaina Deva- 20
nagari characters with occasional पृष्ठमात्राs; small, quite legible, uniform and beautiful hand-writing; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink ; red chalk used; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin ; in the centre of the numbered and unnumbered sides as well, there is some 25 space kept blank so that it forms a design ; a strip of white paper pasted to fol. 2a and one to fol. 35; edges of each and every fol. more or less gone ; condition on the whole tolerably good; complete ; this work ends on fol. 2a; this
Ms. contains an additional work viz. विद्याधराचार्यदृष्टान्त 30
commencing on fol 2d and ending on fol. 3. Age.- Pretty old. Author.- Not mentioned,
14 [J. L. P.]