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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
Reference It seems that this work is not noted in Jinaratnakośa ( Vol. I ).
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सुगन्धदशमीकथा
No. 1144
Size - 107 in. by 5th in.
Extent – 4 folios; 10 lines to a page; 28 letters to a line.
Description - Country paper thin, tough and white; Jaina Devanagari characters with rare qgs; big, quite legible, uniform and tolerably good hand-writing; borders ruled in two lines in black ink; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin; edges of each and every fol, more or less gone; condition on the whole tolerably good; complete.
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Begins - fol. 1a
Sugandhadaśamikathā
Age-Old.
Author - Not known.
Subject Narrative in Sanskrit prose about the Vrata known as Sugandhadasami.
Ends – fol. 46
1054
1887-91
ॐ नमो वीतरागाय ॥
सुगंधदशमीआख्यानकं यथा ।।
इह' जंबू 'द्वीपमाध्ये' भरत 'क्षेत्रे 'राजग्रह 'नगरे राजा श्रीश्रेणिको नाम भार्या तस्य चेल्लणा नाम पट्टराज्ञी etc.
कनककेतु तत्रागत्य राजाश्रीमरककेतु ऋषिरूपं नमस्कृत्य स्वपुत्राय राज्यं दत्वा पितुः पार्श्वे दीक्षा गृहीता अत्युग्रोप्रतपश्चरण कृत्य केवलज्ञानमुत्पाद्य समवसरादिविभूतिशोभायमानगणधरदेवैः सेव्यमानः पश्वत् मोक्षं गतः ॥ छ ॥
इति सुगंधदशमीकथा समाप्ता ॥ छ ॥ श्री ॥ भाचार्य भुवनकीर्तेरिदं पुस्तकं चिरं नंदतु
