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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
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हनूमचरित्र
Hanūmaccaritra No. 1152
1501
1886-92 Size - 10% in. by 5 in. Extent — 79 folios; 11 lines to a page; 32 letters to a line. Description - Country paper thick, tough and white; Jaina Deva.
nagari characters; big, quite legible, uniform and good handwriting; borders ruled in two lines and edges in one, in red ink; daşdas written in red ink; yellow pigment used for making corrections; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin; a few in both; fol. 1a blank; in the left-hand margins, on foll. band 20, the title is written as हनुमानच०; white paste too, used; condition very good; complete; composed in Broach ( Bhrgukaccha); 12 sarges (Granthagra 2000) in all.
Sanskrit verse. Age-Samvat 1890. Author - Brahma Ajita. Subject - Life of Hanumat. He attained salvation in that very birth. Begins - fol. 16 ... ॥ॐ नमः सिद्धेभ्यः ॥ . सद्बोधसिंधुचंद्राय सुव्रताय जिनेशिने ॥
· सुव्रताय नमो नित्यं धर्मशम्मार्थसिद्धये ॥१॥
वृषभाय जिनेंद्राय ॥ वृषाय परमेष्ठिने ॥ नित्यं स्वान्यप्रकासाय नमस्तात्ते सुतायिने ॥२॥ नम श्रीचंद्रनाथाय । सर्वज्ञाय शिवाप्तये ॥
भर्मदशर्मकंदाय कंदाय परमात्मने ॥ ३ ॥ etc. fol. 2b लक्षणे च्छंदसाहित्ये किंचिनास्ति प्रगल्भता
श्रीहनूमत्कुमारस्य कीर्तन कीय॑ते कथं १ २९ ॥ Ends - fol. 79a
इदं श्रीशैलराजस्य चरितं दुरितापहं रचितं भृगुकछ(च्छा)च(प)श्रीनेमिजिनमंदिरे । ९५ ॥ धर्मार्थी लभते वृषंधनयुतो वृद्धिचनिरवोधनं । पुत्रार्थी सुकुलोचितं च तनयं कामश्च कामी लभेत् ॥
