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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
1940
चन्द्रप्रभचरित्र
Candraprabhacaritra (चन्द्रप्रभपुराण)
(Candraprabhapurana)
1102 No. 940
1884-87 Size - 104 in. by 5 in. Extent - 279+1 = 280 folios; 9 lines to a page ; 23 letters to a line. Description-Country paper thick, tough and white; Devanagari
characters; fat, big, clear and good hand-writing; borders rul. ed in two lines and edges in one, in red ink; corners of the 1st and 33rd foll. slightly worn out; yellow pigment used; fol. 128th repeated; the sections in which the work is divided are variously named as सर्ग, अध्याय and पर्व ; mostly, of course, as सर्ग. In the colophons at the end of the cantos 14 and 15, the work is entitled as चद्रप्रभपुराण; foll. 1a and 279b blank; 27 Cantos,
Granthāgra 4050. Age -Pretty old. Author - Dāmodara, successor of Bhūsaņa, successor of Mandala Sūri. Subject-Life of Lord Candraprabha (the 8th Tirthamkara narrated
___in Samskrta poetry. Begins — fol. 10
॥ॐ नमः सिद्धं ॥ श्रीसरस्वत्यै नमः ।। श्रियं चंद्रप्रभो नित्यां चंद्रदश्चंद्रलांछनः । भव्यकुमुदचंद्रो वश्चंद्रप्रभो जिन: क्रियात् ॥१॥ कुशाशनवचो ब्रूडज(ज )गत्तारणहेतवे । तेन स्ववाक्यसूरो( यो )र्धर्मपोतः प्रकाशितः ॥२॥ युगादौ येन तीर्थेशा(शो)धर्मतीर्थः प्रवर्तितः ।
तमहं वृषभं वंदे वृषदं वृषनायकं ॥३॥ fol. 10a इति श्रीमंडलसूरि-श्रीभूषण तत्पट्टगच्छेश(शिष्य )कविदामोदरविरचिते
श्रीचंद्रप्रभविरचिते पीठिकावर्णनं नाम प्रथमः सर्गः॥१॥etc.
Ends - fol. 279b
भूभृन्नेत्राचलशशधरांकप्रभे विक्रमंशे । वर्षे(5)तीते नवम दिवसे मासि भाद्रे सुयोगे ।
