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The Digambara Works
तच्छिष्यश्रुतसागरेण रचिता संक्षेपतः सत्कथा रोहिन्या श्रवनामृतं भवतु वस्तापादये संततं ९६ इति श्रीसूरिश्रीश्रुतसागरविरचिता असोकरोहिनीकथा समाप्ताः
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अष्टाह्निककथा
Astāhnikakathā
86 No. 902
1898-99 Size — 124 in. by 8} in. Extent-5 folios; 13 lines to a page; 45 letters to a line. Description - Country paper thick, tough and white; Jaina Devapāgari
characters; sufficiently big, quite legible, uniform and beauti. ful hand-writing: borders ruled in three lines and edges in one, in red ink;dandas for the verses etc. written in red ink; foH. numbered in both the margins, fol. 1a blank except that on the following line is written in the centre: अष्टाहिककथा संस्कृत; condition very good; 9 mantras given on fol.54; com. plete; the title of this work is written in the left-hand margin
as मष्टाहिका0 अष्टाहिक and अष्टाहिकाकथा. Age-Samvat 1953. .
Author-Surendrakirti.
Subject - Siddhacakra-narrative relating to Astāhnika Vrata. Begins — fol. 10
॥ ॐ नमः सिद्धेभ्यः॥ श्रीमंतं वर्द्धमानेश नत्वा कुर्वे समासतः रूजुशब्दैः सिद्धचक्रं कथां बालावबोधये । १।। मथेह जंबूद्वीपे सन्मेरोदक्षिणदिक्नटे भरते(s)थार्यखंडे(5)स्त्ययोध्याख्या नगरी शुभा । । तत्रेक्ष्वाकुकुलोत्तसो हरिषेणाभिधानकः समुद्भूतो महाराजा सम्यग्दृष्टिशिरोमणेः । ३। etc.
