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Jaina Literature and Philosophy [17. अमरदत्तमित्रानन्दचरित्र Amaradatta-Mitranandacaritra .. [अमरदत्तमित्रानन्दरास] [Amaradatta-Mitrānandarase. ] No. 17
1578. . ..
1891-95. Size.- 98 in. by 4t in. 5 Extent. — 15-1=14 folios ; 17 lines to a page ; 48 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper not very thin, smooth and white;
Devanagari characters with occasional पृष्ठमात्राs; bold, legible and fair hand-writing but closely written ; borders ruled in four lines in black ink with the intervening space between the pairs filled up by.red colour ; every fol. decorated with a small figure in the centre; yellow pigment used ; foll. numbered as usual; the 12th fol. missing%3; otherwise the work complete; composed in Samvat 1606
in Unjha ; fol. Is blank ; condition very good. 15. Age.- Old. ___ Author.-(Siddhi Suri, pupil of Jayasagara ), pupil of Deva.
gupta Suri. He is the author of i) Kuladhvajakumara. rasa (V. S. 1618 ), (ii) Sivadattarasa and (iii) Simha
sanabatrisi ( V. S. 1616). . . 20 Subject.- Life of Amatadatta and that of Mitrananda extracted
' from the biography of Lord Santi, in verse in Gujarati. Begins.- fol. !" भीगुरुभ्यो नमः
सबलगुणनिधि सकलगुणनिधि सकल जिनराय । पयपंकज प्रणमी करी भला भावि भारति नमेवीय । सहिगुरुचरण सिर नमी रकचित्ति कविराज सेवीय । कर्मफलाफल जाणवा मित्रानंदचरित्त ।
बोलिड बहु बुदि करी । मुणयो सहु एकचिति ॥१॥ .: सुपर समगस समरी सासर सती । अमीय समी वाणी परसती ।
. पयका प्रणमी तस तणा । बोलिस गुण मित्रानंदन तणा ॥२॥
नाम जिसं तेहईं परिणाम । अमरदत्त बीजं अभिराम ॥ etc. Ends. fol. 1st "
पामी सहिगुरुनु उपदेस । जाणी शान तणो लपलेस । अमरदत्तनु रचीउ रास | मणतां गुणतां अतिउल्हास ।। १८ ॥
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