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Ambedakathånaka No. 26
573.
1884-86. Size.--101 in, by 44 in. Extent.— 32 folios ; 17 lines to a page ; 40 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper thick, durable and somewhat white
in colour : Devanāgari characters with occasional para ; bold, good and big hand-writing ; borders unruled; numbers for verses etc. written in red ink; foll. numbered as usual ; fol. 1* blank; practically from the noch fol. letters are blotted out and hence illegible, perhaps owing to ink on one fol. being absorbed by and spread out on the other ; condition tolerably good ; complete ; 7 adeśas in all; the entire work is divided into parts known as adeśas as under :--
Adeśa i
II III
ge-120 . .IV
12-18* (?)
18' (?)-31 VI .
216-? ; VII
2-326 Age. - Not modern. Author.-- Muniratna Súri. Subject. - A narration of Kșatriya Ambaďa along with 32
Putrikäs in verse and prose as well, in Sapskrit. - Begins. - fol. roll coll
धर्मात संपत्ते लक्ष्मीधर्माद सपमनिषितं । धर्मात सौभाग्यदीर्घायुधर्मात् सर्वे समीहितं ॥१॥ धर्मस्योपरि संबंधः क्षत्रियस्यांवरस्य च ।
aprillgrigliettereftangra frontal II etc. Ends.-—fol. 320
véguifguidaat rafiniunat female AT..
Tara JR JE: 57%ATATIC Pagi gigirre 5 (J.L. P.)
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