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Ior.] The Svetāmbara Narratives
133 red chalk used ; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin; unnumbered sides are decorated with a small disc in red colour in the centre only, whereas the numbered, in each of the two margins, too; some of the foll. badly worm - eaten ( vide foll. 19-28 ); condition on the whole 5 tolerably good ; complete so far as the abotkor is concern
ed; the subsequent kathā ends abruptly. Age.- Pretty old. Author.- Not known. Subject.- This work starts with a narrative of Vikramaditya.
Sometimes a narrative is in Prakrit. Vide fol. 36° ff. Begins.- fol. 1° ५६० ॥ नमः सर्वज्ञाय ।
समस्तस(?)तविस्तोमस्वच्छमानसहंविकां । कामधेनुमतीष्टातौ प्रणिपत्य सरस्वतीं। १ विदग्धानां प्रमोदाय । सतकथानकसंग्रहं । बहुश्रुतेभ्यो विज्ञाय विधास्य(s)हं यथामतिः । २ सिद्धिहेतुः कदाप्यत्र भवेत् स्वप्नो(5)पि कस्यचित् ।।
देवानुकल्यवशतो विक्रमादित्यभूपवत् ॥ ३ etc. Ends.--fo.1 87° ततो मार्जार ततःप्रथमनरके गतः। अनंतसंसारे भ्रमणं करिष्यति।
श्रेष्ठी धर्म पाल्य अनशनं गृह्य 'सौधमें 'इंद्रसाम्य(मा)निको देवः । क्रमेण 20 मोक्षं च ॥
इति तृतीयाणुव्रते चतुर्थातिचारे वरुणकथा ॥ ५ ॥ तप्पडिरूवं दव्वं पि वि यं जो भव्वदवमझमि । विक्किणइ किणइ दुखं । सागरचंदु व्व सो इहई ॥१
'नंदिपुरे' नगरे समरमकारे (ends abruptly ) Reference.- Over and above this work and the next two there
are several anonymous works named as Kathåsangraha. For their Mss. see Jinaratnakosa ( Vol. I, p.67 ).
कथासङ्ग्रह
Kathāsangraba No. 101
1272.
1884-87. Size.— 104 in. by 48 in. Extent.- 3 folios ; 28 lines to a page ; 70 letters to a line.
