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श्रोणिकरास
Śreņikarāsa No. 783
1916-18 Size - 94 in. by 4 in. Extent - 110 folios; 13 lines to a page ; 28 letters to a line. Description-Country paper thin, tough and greyish; Jaina Deva
någarl characters; big, fat, quite legible and tolerably good handwriting; borders ruled indifferently in three lines and edges in one, in red ink; dandas written in red ink; foll. num. bered in the right-hand margin; in the left-hand margins, the title is written as guitar; red chalk used ; in some cases letters are blurred; edges of several foll. gone; those of the last fol. rather more so that even some letters are gone; strips of paper pasted to fol. 109b%; condition on the whole tolerably good; complete; composed at Cambay in V.S. 1682 in 1839 verses%3B
the entire work is divided into 7 khandas. Age-Samvat 1798. Author-Rsabhadasa, a Jaina layman, son of Sangana, Saighavi.
For his additional works see Jaina Girjara Kavio (Vol.I).
They are as under :Subject - A story of Sreņika. For comparison the following works
may be consulted : श्रेणिकरास by ब्रह्मजिनदास (दिगंबर) (c. V. S. 1520) समरचन्द्र
(c.V. S. 1583) सोमविमलसूरि
in v. S. 1603 भीम भावसार in v. S. 1621 नारायण वल्लभकुशल
in V. S. 1775 Begins - fol. 1a
ए ६०॥ श्रीजिनाय नमः दूहा ॥ आदि अनादी सरस्वती । सदा लगेतु स्वाम सहोको सेवे सारदा । बाल करि तुझ ध्यान । १। षट दरसणमा तु षरी। ताहरे सघले वास । करो कृपा तो गाईइं । नरश्रेणिकनो रास । २ । etc. तेणे कारण श्रेणीकनो रासो। जोही गावे कवीरीषभदासो
