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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
[1090 चैत्यालये पण्डितजी-श्रीनानिगदासजीत्ककस्य शिष्येण वषतरामेणेदं लिखितम् वरांगचरित्रं ॥ ॥ शुभं भूयात् ॥ लेखकपाठकयोमैगलावली भूयात् ]
Varáñgacaritra
वराङ्गचरित्र No. 1090
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1891-95
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Size - 111 in. by 41 in.
Extent - 69 folios; 9 lines to a page; 36 letters to a line.
Description - Country paper thick, rough and white; Jaina Deva.
nagari/characters; big quite legible, uniform and very good hand-writing; borders not ruled; foll. numbered in both the margins; rest, in the right-hand margin only; yellow pigment used for making corrections%3; fol. 12b has only one line written to it; it is continued on fol. 13a; black ink applied on fol. 69b to score out some words; edges of the last fol. slightly gone ; condition on the whole good; extent
1383 Slokas. Age-Samvat 1827. Author- Vardhamāna. For other particulars see the preceding entry. Begins-fol. 1a
॥ श्रीसरस्वत्यै नमः॥
ज़िनस्य संज्ञानमयैकदर्पणे etc. as in the preceding entry. Ends -- fol. 690
.: स्वस्ति श्री मूल 'संघे etc. upto प्रयोदशमः सर्गः ॥छ | as in the
preceding entry. This is followed by the lines as under :.... शुभं भवतु ॥ श्लोकसंख्या १३८२ एकत्र संवत् १८२७ का पौसमासे शुक्लपक्षे
सप्तम्य दिवसे ॥ ७॥ ... ( letters blurred)... प्यकृतापठनहेतवे इदं शास्त्रं ॥
ज्ञानवान् ज्ञानदानेन निर्मयो(s)भयदानतः भन्नदानात् सुखी नित्यं नियाधिभै (मैं )पजाद् भवेत् ॥१॥