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Kathoddhāra
1299. No. 103
1887-91. Size.- Iol in. by 4g in. Extent.- 18 folios; 17 lines to a page ; 65 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper thin, tough and white; Jaina Deva
nāgari characters with frequent fraS; small, quite legible, uniform and beautiful hand-writing ; borders ruled in three lines in red ink; red chalk used; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin; edges of some of the foll. gone%3B condition on the whole good; there is some space kept blank in the centre of the numbered and the unnumbered sides as well ; complete ; a number of kathas given here ;
extent 1163 ślokas. Age.- Nor modern. Author.- Dharmasekhara Gani. He or his namesake is the
author of चतुर्विशतिजिनस्तवन (यमकमय) (vide Vol. XIX, Sec. I, pt. I, No. 145) The same thing may be said about Mahopadhyāya Dharmasekhara who has commented upon Usabhapancasiyā in Sanskrit and Gujarāti as well. Vide
Vol. XIX, Sec. I, pt. I, No.53. Subject.- Narratives dealing with various topics. One of them is
___about the origin of the Digambara ( Botika ) sect. Begins.- fol. !' ५६० ॥ श्रीआवश्यकस्य कथा ॥
कुतो(s)पि नगराल्लोको वित्यक्षातंकशंकया । अरण्यं शरणीचक्रे किंचिद्वैरिदुरासदं ॥१ अपरेयुः पुनस्तत्राप्यवस्कंदभयातुरः ।
आत्तपाणः पलायिष्ठ विमुच्य शकटादिकं ॥२ etc. Ends. - fol. 18b
मा भल्लोको विरक्तो नस्ततो(5)द्य शाटकं ददो स्या(सा) नैच्छद् बांधवेनोक्रा(क्ता) म्राह्यो(5)यं देवताकरात् ॥ १५ कोष्टवीरव द्वौ शिष्यो तेन दीक्षितौ ततः शिष्यप्रशिष्यायैः विसृतोस्ते(s)पि बोटिकाः ॥१६
इति बोटिकानीसंभवा लिखित ॥५। पंडितराजपं०धर्मशेखरगणिभिः
कृतः कथाउद्धारः॥ ग्रंथानं ११६३ ।। ५ ॥ श्रीः॥ ७ ॥ Reference.-- Only this Ms. is noted in Jinaratnakosa ( Vol. I,
p. 67).
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