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The Svetambara Works
Description. - Country paper very thin and greyish in colour ;
Jaina Devanagari characters; .bold, uniform, quite clear and sufficiently big hand-writing ; borders ruled in three lines in red ink ; foll. numbered as usual; corners slightly
worn out; condition tolerably good. Age.- Old. Subject.- A narration of King Aghatakumara in 269 verses in
Sanskrit by way of illustrating the fructification of merit.
This narration exists in three recensions. Of them one is in prose, and it is translated into German by Dr. 10
Miss Krause and published in " Indische Marchen", "
Leipzig in A. D. 1922. Begins.--- fol. I.
प्राणिनामसहायानामपि पुण्यवतामिह ॥ अघटस्येव जायते रविपदोर्पिह संपदः ॥१॥ अघटित घटितानि घटयति । अघटितघटितानि जर्जरी करते।।
विधिरेष तानि घटयति । पानि पुमान् नैव चिंतयति ॥ २ ॥ Ends. fol. 66
पापरयं घटितक्षितिबल्लभो(अ)पि. ... प्राप प्रसिद्धसतराज्यषियोंगदुखं । एको(s)गण्येरंघटस्तु पुण्यः
प्राज्यं समासादयति स्म राज्यं ॥६॥ इति पुण्यविषये अघटकुमारकथा समाप्ताः ॥ धंधानं ॥२१॥ ॥ श्रीः ।। भी॥ चित्तवित्तसपात्राणां योगे दानं जिनोतमैः ।
प्रोक्तं देयं स्वस्यै ख्याय | शालिभद्र इवांगिमिः ॥ १॥ Reference.-- For additional Mss. see Jinaratnakośa ( Vol. I, p. 1).
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अजापुत्रकथा
Ajaputrakatha
607.. No.6
1892-95. Sizc.- 104 in. by 48 in. Extent. - 9 folios ; 16 lines to a page ; 56 letters is a line. Description.– Country paper very thin and greyish; Devanagari
characters with पृष्ठमानाs; bold, elegant, quite clear and uni- form hand-writing ; borders ruled in four black lines
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