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The Digambara Works
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Subject - A Sanskrit version of the story originally composed by Hari.
deva, in Prakrit. However in the other MS. following the Prāksta work is shown as composed by Nagodeo son of Harideva or jointly by the fatber and the son; the work is a
fiction involving debate of Moha, Kāma etc. Begins --fol. 10
॥ श्रीजिनाय नमः ॥ अथ मदनपराजयग्रंथ(:)लिख्यते ॥ .. यदमलपदपद्मं श्रीजिनेशस्य नित्यं शतमखशतसेव्यं पत्नगर्भादिवंचं दुरितवनकुठारं ध्वस्तमोहांधकार सदमलसुखहेतुं त्रिप्रकारं नमामि १ etc. कथा प्राकृतबंधेन हरिदेवेन या कृता
वक्षे संस्कृतबंधेन भव्यानां धर्मसिद्धये ५ etc. fol. 8a इति ठक्कुरमा-इंदजिनदेवसुतविरचिते मदनपराजये
संस्कृतबंधे स्तुतावस्था नामाः प्रथमपरिच्छेदः १ Ends-fol. 28a
अस्मिन् सुचारित्रपुरे समस्तान् etc. as in the succeeding entry upto इति मदनपराजय समाप्तं । followed by: संवत् एकोनविंशतिशत्अष्टादश कार्तिककृष्णाष्टम्यां आदितवारे लिपीकृतं स्वरूपचंद्रेण 'विलाला'. गोत्रे 'सवाईजय 'नगरे स्वज्ञानावर्णीकर्मक्षयार्थ ॥ श्री॥
Reference -See pp. 10-12 of S. R. Bhandarkars "Report on the search
for Sanskrit Mss. in Central India, Central Provinces and Rajpuana, 19-4-05", Poona, 1905.
मदनपराजय
Madanaparājaya
1064 No. 1051
1887-91 Size - 11} in. by 58 in. Extent - 38 folios; 13 lines to a page; 36 letters to a line. Description - Country paper thick, though and white; Devanāgari
characters; bold, big, legible and good hand-writing; borders ruled in two lines and edges in one, in red ink; yellow pigment used; red chalk, too; fol, 19 and 386 blank; complete.