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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
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धन्यकुमारचरित्र
Dhanyakumāracaritra
1109 No. 988
1884-87 Size -11 in. by 5 in. Extent - 35 folios; 11 lines to a page; 36 letters to a line. Description -Country paper thick and white; Devanagari characters:
big, bold, legible and good hand-writing; borders ruled in two lines and edges in one, in red ink; foll. 1a and 350 blank; numbers of foll. entered twice as usual; marginal notes in Gujarati%; जंत्रवीस्यो in the margin of fol. 35a; complete;
condition very good. Age -- Samvat 1876. Author - Bhattaraka Sakalakirti. Subjeci - Life of Dhanyakumāra in seven Adhikāras, in verses in
Sanskrit.
A yantra on fol. 1bas follows:
__सी ई
२चं
श
४ बृ
वीस्यो
Begins - fol. 10॥ॐ॥
श्रीसर्वज्ञाय नमः। नमः श्रीवर्द्धमानाय पंचकल्याणभागिने । जिनाय विश्वनाथाय मुक्तिभर्ने गुणाब्धये ॥ १॥ etc. चारित्रं पावनं धन्यकुमारस्य शुभावहं । वैश्यसत्कुलदीपस्य 'सर्वा(वार्थसिद्धि 'गामिनः ॥ २१॥ etc. .....करिष्ये कर्मदानये ॥५२॥ etc.
