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The Svetambara Narratives
'बेबंदी' गच्छ सहिगुर (रु) सार | सकल कला केरु भंडार ।। श्रीदेवगुप्त वंदूं सूरीस | कर जोड़ी कहइ तेहनु सीस ॥ १९ ॥ संघकथनिथिङ उलट घछु । रचिउ रास मित्रानंद तनुं । कुंथ (थु) जिणेसर तणइ पसाय । करी चोपई 'उंझा' मांहि ॥ २० ॥ कुण संच्छर कहइ मासि । करिउ रास जे कहुं विम्मासि । संवत सोल छढोतर (१६०६) जाणि । शाक
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उद बहुत्तिरो (१४७२ )
विषाणि ॥ २१ ॥
बदि वैशाष चउथि तिथि सार । मूल नषेत्र निर्मल रविवार | तेइ दिन रबीउ ए रास । सांभलतां पहुच सवि आस ।। २२ ॥ सर्व ग्रंथनी संध्या ऋणु । दूहा चोपई एकठां गुणो ।
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गाडा वस्तु तेहमांहिं मिली । शतक पंच एकत्रीसह बली ॥ २३ ॥ वस्तु एक चोपई सयई क्यारि । बली च्यालीस अधिकीय विचारि । प्राकृत गाथा जाणू पंच । दूहा पंचहुत्तिरिनु संत्र ॥ २४ ॥ etc. The last verse is as under:—
Kavio ( Vol. I, pp. 674).
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अमरदत्तमित्रानन्दचरित्र
'मेरु' महीधर महीधर मही (य) लि सार । जिहां प्रतपइ दिनकर संसारि । 15 तिहां ए रास सदा सुषकार । अयु जय श्रीसंघ मझारि ॥ २७ ॥ इति श्री शांतिनाथचरित्रादु(द) धृतश्री अमरदत्त मित्रा नंदास संपूर्णः Reference. For additional Mss. and extracts see Jaina Gurjara 200- 201 & Vol. III, Pt. I, PP. 673-
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Amaradatta-Mitrānandaca ritra
1579.
1891-95.
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No. 18
Size. - 8 in. by 4 in.
Extent. - 25 folios; 13 lines to a page; 32 letters to a line. Description. - Country paper thin, smooth and greyish ; Devanagari characters with qarars; bold, clear, uniform and good hand-writing; borders ruled in three lines in red ink ; strips of paper pasted to fol. 1'; it is decorated with a beautiful figure in red and yellow colours; unnumbered sides marked with a small circular disc in red colour, in the middle, whereas the numbered ones have over and above this two more such discs, one in each ma gin ; foll. numbered as usual; fol. 19 wrongly numbered as 18;
- the 25th fol. has a strip of paper pasted to it at the corner; 3g condition on the whole very fair; complete."
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