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The Digambara Works
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शानावणीकर्मक्षयनिमित्तं ॥ दातृपातृयोमागल्यं ददातु ॥शुभ ॥
वर्धमानकथा
Vardhamānakathā
1204 No. 1091
1891-95 Size – 104 in. by 48 in. Extent - 54-5=49 folios; 12 lines to a page; 36 letters to a line.
Description - Country paper thin and greyish ; Devanāgari characters;
big, clear and fair hand-writing; borders indifferently ruled in four lines in black ink; white paste used; red chalk, too%3B commences abruptly; edges of some foll. slightly damaged ; portion of the 6th and 51st foll. word out; a margin of the 7th fol. gone; fol. 7th seems to be numbered as 123rd; foll. 8-9, 24-25, 28, 39 missing: eleven chapters (samdhis); incomplete.
Age - Not quite modern.
Author - Not known (? Jayamitra). Subject - Life of Bhagvan Mahavira in Apabhramsa (poetry). Begins (Text) - fol. 1a
रायदोइय चित्तत्तरिवि णमंसिय । वद्धमाणु जिणु हरिहि पसंसिय ॥ पत्ता॥ इय वीरजिणिंदहो कुवलयचंदहो भणिय तिण्णि कल्लाणहं । हरिइंद णमंसिय विवुहपसंसिय दितु पंचकल्लाणह॥ २३ ॥ इय सिरिवद्वमाणकव्वे पयडियचउवग्गमग्गरसभग्वे सेणिय अभय चरिते विरश्य जयमित्त हल्ल सुकइत्ते भवियणजणमणहरणे संधाहिवहो लिवम्मकडाहरणे। वट्टमाणजिणकुमारत्तलीला वह णोणिरकवण कल्लाणु छवसूयणो णाम पंचमो संधि परिछेओ समत्तो ॥ संधि । पणवेवि आणिंदमहो चरमजिणिंदहो वीरहो दंसणणाणपहा । सेणियहो णारिंदहो कुवलयचंदहो णिसुण कुंभवियहो पवरकहा ॥ छ ।
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