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सर्वेषां तीर्थकर्तृणां सिद्धानां गणिनां सदा पाठकानां च साधूनां तद्गुणाय क्रमान् भजे १ मथ तौ सूर्यमित्राग्निभूती महामुनीश्वरौ त्रिरत्नशुद्धिमापनावुत्कृष्टाचारभूषितौ २ विहरंतौ च देशादीन् वर्तयंती पथं शिवे 'वाराणस्या' बहिर्भागं जग्मतुः स्वेच्छयैकदा ३ तत्र चित्तं निधायाशु स्वात्मध्यानेति निश्चलं
तो घातिकर्महंतारं दधतुर्योगमद्भुतं Reference - The Ms. ends thus.
सुकुमालचरित्र . . Sukumālacaritra . No. 1142
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1884-87 Size - 128 in. by 58 in. Extent - 38 folios; 12 lines to a page; 42 letters to a line.
Description - Country paper somewhat thick, rough, tough and white;
Jaina Devanagari characters; big, quite legible, uniform and very good hand-writing; borders ruled in two lines and edges in one, in red ink; numbers for the verses, their dandas and puşpikās written in red ink; foll. numbered in both the
margins; in the left-hand margins, the title is written as सुकुमाल०; yellow pigment used for making corrections%3; fol. 1a blank; the first fol. awefully damaged; few foll. worm-eaten3B otherwise condition good; complete; Granthāgra 1240 ślokas;
9 cantos in all. Age-S.Y.1802. Author - Bhattāraka Sakalakirti. Subject -Life of Sukumalasawmin in Sanskrit verse. Begins - fol. 16
ॐ पंचपरमेष्टिभ्यः॥ नमः श्रीविश्वनाथाय (torn) as in the preceding entry.
