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The Digambara Works
Extent - 12 folios (1650 to 1760 ); 11 lines to a page: 40 letters
to a line. Description-Country paper somewhat thick, rough and white; Jaina
Devanagari characters; big, quite legible, uniform and tolerably good hand-writing; borders ruled in two lines in black; ink; red chalk used; foll. numbered in both the margins%3B this MS. begins abruptly, so its 1st fol. is numbered as 165%B whitish pigment used while making corrections; corners of all the foll. more or less gone; condition tolerably good; the last kathā given here is Nandiśvaravidhānakathā; there are two diagrams on fol. 176b; one of them pertains to Nandi
svara-dvipa. Age-Pretty old. Author - Harisena, disciple of Gunacandra Suri. Subject -Narratives relating to Astahnika Vrata. Begins-fol. 165a
...तं ये श्रयते श्रुतिजलनिधिजातां संपदं ते लभ(में)ते ॥८॥ वृषभायाजिनाः सर्वे भारतीगुरवस्तथा कथारचकश्रोतृणां सवा(३) कुर्वतु मंगलं ॥ ८७ ॥ इति कवलचंद्रायणव्रतकथा संपूर्णम् ॥ श्रीः ॥ शशांक-गोक्षीर-हार-धवलगात्राय विश्वविद्याकुलगृहाय समस्तविधहराय श्रीचंद्रप्रभतीर्थकराय नमः ॥ इति जापः अष्टोत्तरजातीपुष्पॅरखंडततंदुलैर्वा कर्तव्यः ॥ श्रीः ॥ भथ अष्टाह्निकद्वितीयव्रतकथा लि.॥ त्रैलोक्याधिपतीयत्वा पंचैव परमेष्टिनः। अष्टाहकवताख्यानं कुर्वे भव्यानुरंजनं ॥१॥ अथास्ति विजयो रम्यो 'मगधा 'रः स्वरूपमः ।
तन्मध्ये भाति सद्ग 'राजगृह'मनिंदितं ॥२॥ etc. Ends-fol. 176a
श्री मूल 'संघेच विघातिनीह प्रोद्योतमानेन्यमतानि नेशुः । आचार्यवयों यतिवृंदवंद्य
श्रीरत्नकीर्तिस्समभूद्धरियां ॥५॥ -2 [J.L.P.]
