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The Digambara Works
ज्ञानवा (न्) ज्ञानदानेन निर्भयो ( 5 ) भयदानतः । अन्नदानात्सुखी नित्यं निर्व्याधी भेषजाद्भवेत् ॥ १ ॥ छ ॥
कर्णामृतपुराण
No. 928
Size - 12 in by 5g in.
Extent – 125 folios; 13 lines to a page; 36 letters to a line.
Description – Country paper thick, tough and white; Jaina Devanagari characters; big, quite legible, uniform and beautiful hand-writing; borders ruled in two lines and edges in one, in red ink; foll numbered in both the margins; fol. 1a blanks numbers for the verses, their dandas and the puṣpikās at the end of every skandha are written in red ink; yellow pigment used while making corrections; in the left-hand margin, the title is mentioned as f; horsocopic kandalis and the like are given in the margin on foll. 3a, 36, 4a, 4b, 5a and 5b; condition very good; complete; the entire work is divided into 24 skandhas.
Age - Samvat S. Y.1824.
Author
disciple of Kesavasena Kṛṣṇadāsa (Sena)
Subject -Life of Raja Karna and connected history of Lord Neminā
tha's time.
Begins - fol 10 ॥ ॐ ॥
ॐ नमः सिद्धेभ्यः ॥
लीलावासमलक्षं च श्रीपतिं परमेश्वरं
शुलक्षं ज्ञानिनां वंदे पुरुं पावनशाशनं १
मातरं जगतां ज्ञानविधानपरमोदयां ।
ध्यायामि मनसि प्रायो गिरं श्रीशर्महेतवे ॥ २ ॥ etc.
Ends - fol. 124b
आकर्णयंति खलु ये सुनरा नताग्यः श्री कर्णभूपतिपुराणमिदं पवित्र
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Karṇāmṛtapurāṇa
926
1892-95
