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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
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· ब्रतकथाकोशभाषा
Vratakathākosabhāṣā
969 No. 1104
1892-95 Size - 131 in. by 67 in. Extent - 90 folios; 13 lines to a page; 32 letters to a line. Description - Country paper thick, tough and white; Jaina Devanāgarl
characters; big, perfectly legible, uniform and beautiful hand. writing; borders ruled mostly in two lines and edges in one, in red ink; foll. numbered in both the margins; fol. 1a blank; dandas, some words and lines written in red ink; edges of the last fol. slightly gone; condition on the whole very good; complete ; last three lines written in a different hand.
Age - Samvat 1888. Author (of original text in Sanskrit) - Srutasāgara. Translator in Hindi poetry - Khusyalacanda. Subject -- Narratives about various Jaina Vrata-festivals (vows ). * Begins-fol. 10 ॥ ॐ॥
श्रीवीतरागाय नमः ॥ अथ वृतकथाकोशभाषा कुस्यालचंदकृत लिषते ॥ प्रथम जेठजिणवरकथा ॥१॥ चौपई ॥ आदिनाथ बंदौ जिनराय ॥ कर्मकलंक रहत सुषदाय ॥ धनुषपंचसैं जाकौ काय ॥ वृषलछनसोभे अधिकाय ॥ १॥ बर्धमान वंदौ जिनदेव ॥ प्रियकारणीमातसु एव ॥ सप्त हस्त तन हेमसमान ॥ सिधारथनृपको सुत जांन ॥२॥ गणधर बंदौ मनबचकाय श्रुतबंदी उज्जलसुधकाय ॥ जेठजिनंदकथा कहू सार । सुणिज्यो भवि भागै बिसतार ॥३॥ etc.
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सरबारथसिधिकू गये ॥ जहां अधिक सुष पाय ॥. चयजिनंद उपजै इहां ॥ नाभिपुत्र जिनराय ॥ १२ ॥ इनि तपकी महिमा घणी ॥ कहू काहालौ और ॥ दस अपार भावनीते ।। तारणसमरथ जोर ॥ ९ ॥
