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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
Extent – 402 folios : 5 lines to a page; 32 letters to a line. Text.
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Tabba. Description - Country paper somewhat thick, rough and white; Jaina Devanagari characters; this MS. contains the text as well as the interlinear Tabbā; the former written in big, quite legible, uniform and very good hand-writing; the same is the case with the latter except that it is written in slightly smaller handwriting; borders ruled in two lines and edges in one, in red ink; red chalk used for marking out the numbering of the verses; some of the foll. numbered in both the margins; otherwise all the foll. numbered in the right-hand margin; fol. 1a blank; edges and corners of the first and the last foll. gone; condition on the whole good; both the text and the Tabba complete; sixteen chapters.
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Begins (Text ) - fol. 10 ॥ ॐ ॥
ॐ नम सिद्धेभ्यः ॥
श्रीमन्नेमिजिनं नत्वा । लोकालोकप्रकाशक तत्पुराणमहं वक्ष्ये । भव्यानां सौख्यदायकं ॥ १ ॥
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Age – Samvat 1782.
Author - Brahma Nemidatta.
Subjeci -Life of Bhagwan Neminatha the 22nd Tirthamkara depicted in Sanskrit verse.
नमद्देवेंद्रमौलीन । लसत्कांतिसरोजले ।
यस्य पादद्वयं प्राप्य । प्रोलसत्कमलश्रियं २ ॥
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जिनेंद्रनेमिनाथस्य पुराणं कविना .... ...र्थ लेशमात्रेण रामजी ब्रह्महेतवे २
ये नेमिर्द्धर्मचक्रस्य । नेमिर्जातप्रवर्त्तने ।
तं स्तुवे भुवनभोज | भास्करं नेमिनायकं ॥ ३ ॥ etc.
(Tabbā) fol. 18 ॥ ॐ ॥
प्रणम्य परया भक्त्या श्रीजिनं नेमिनायकं
वक्ष्ये बालबोधाय आत्मसत्त्यानुसारत १
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श्रीमंत कहतां सोभावंत श्रीनेमिनाथजिनप्रतङ्कं नमानै केहवाछे नेमनाथलोक ४५
लाष मनुष्य क्षेत्र अलोकना प्रकाशक तथा च तै पुराणप्रत अहं etc.
