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The Svetāmbara Narratives They are as under :
(1) कुसुम, (2) अक्षत, (3) फल, (4) जल, (5) धूप, (6) दीप, (7) नेवेद्य and ( 8 ) वास.
These are mentioned in this work in the following 8th verse :
"कुसमक्खयफलजलधृवदीवनवज्जवासनिम्भाया। प्रया जिणेसराणं सा अट्टविहा विणिहिट्टा ॥ ८॥"
The eight stories form a part and parcel of Ananta
nathacaritra. Begins.- fol. 1 ॐ नमः सर्वज्ञाय ॥
जयह ज(जु)गाइजिीणदो परिविलसिरसमस(र)णचउरूषो ।
वागरिडं विष सहदाणशी(सी)लतवभाषणाधम्मे ।। १ etc. Ends.- fol. 320
एयरस घातपूया जह जाया सिद्धिसोक्खसंजणणी। तह अन्नस्स वि जायइ जइयवं ता सया तीए ॥ ३ ॥ (१५३५)
वासपुजा ॥ इय तिहुयणसामिअणत्तनाहकहियम्मि अट्टपूयफले । बहमाणपसए कलिओ कय(य)व (ब परिमलमहीनाहो । ३६ (१५३६)।
छ । शुभं भवतु ।। छ । श्रीः । श्रीअनंतनाथचरित्रगतपूजाष्टककथानकानि ॥ शुभं भवतु श्रीसंघाय ।
.... Reference.-- Published by Rayachand Gulabchand in A. D. 1940,
the title being " श्रीअनन्तनाथचरित्रादुर्धतं पूजाष्टकम्".
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अष्टाहिकाविचार
Astābikāvicāra (अट्ठाहिआविआर)
( Atthāhiaviara) No. 39
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1884-87. Size.-- 104 in. by 41 in. Extent.- 23 folios ; I3 lines to a page ; 44 letters to a line, Description.- Country paper thin, tough and white; Jaina Deva
nagari characters with पृष्ठमात्राs; big, quite legible, uniform 30 and beautiful hand-writing; borders ruled in two pairs of two lines in black ink; space between the pairs coloured red; numbers for the verses, their dandas, a part of the initial line and some line or so in the body of the work
