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कथासंग्रह [ अन्तरकथासंग्रह ]
[ विनोदकथासंग्रह ]
Size -
Supplement to
Volume XIX (II) Part I
No. 1167 (=97 a)
101 in. by 41 in.
Extent 23 folios; 20 lines to a page; 60 letters to a line.
Kathāsaṁgraha [Antarakathāsaṁgraha] [ Vinodakathāsaṁgraha ]
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1320
1884-87
Description Country paper very thin, tough and white; Jaina Devanagarl characters with rare q; small, quite legible, uniform and beautiful hand-writing; borders ruled in three lines in red ink; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin; there is a square blank space in the centre of the numbered and unnumbered sides as well; edges of some of the foll. partly worn out; condition on the whole good; complete; 82 kathas in all; same as No. 97 of Vol. XIX (II) Part I. Pretty old.
Age
Author - Rajasekhara Sūri pupil of Śritilaka of Maladharin' gaccha. For his additional works see No. 405 of Vol. XIX, Sec. II, Pt. II.
Begins fol. 1a || ||
Subject -Same as No. 97 of XIX (II) Part I. Stories and substories for diversion, amusement etc. There are about 86 Kathas dealing with religious and moral precepts and 14 pertaining to word-jugglery (g) and humour (pari. hasa). Cf Kathāśamgraha and Kathasara of Rajasekhara and • जैन साहित्य का बृहद् इतिहास ' ( Vol. VI, pp. 253-54).
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aft fant etc. as in No. 97 of Vol. XIX, Sec. II Pt. I.