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चित्रदीप (तात्पथबोधिनीव्याल्या) ,
- Citradipa (Comm. Tatparyabodhini)
NO. 234
No. 234
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236 1882-83
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Size.- 10in. by 44 in. Extent.- 49 leaves ; 10 lines to a page ; 40 letters to a line.
Description.- Country paper, thick, smooth and grey ; Devanāgari
characters ; handwriting medium bold, clear and uniform ; borders ruled with double black lines ; text in the centre with comm. above and below it; red chalk used for important words and verse-numbers ; occasional marginal notes or additions; foll. torn at one end, probably due to worms%3B No. of verses in the text = 290 ; the marginal notes are in Gujarati; e.g. fol. 8b; yellow pigment rarely used for corrections ; fol. 1b is surrouhded all round by a floral
design in black ink, with the first verse of the 'text in the : centre and the Comm. written all around it.
Age.-Fairly old. Author.- Comm.--Rāmakşşņa. Begins.- fol. 10 Text.
यथा चित्रपटेष्टमवस्थानां चतुष्टयं ॥ परमात्मनि विज्ञेयं तथावस्थाचतुष्टयं ॥
....
.. Comm.
॥ श्रीगणेशाय नमः॥
शुक्लांबरधरं etc. Ends.- fol. 49b Text.
चिषदीपमिमं नित्यं येनुसंदधते बुधाः॥
पश्यतोपि जगचित्रं तेन मुह्यन्ति पूर्ववत् ।। २९०॥ ॥ इति श्रीचित्रदीपः समाप्तः॥ ॥३॥ ॥छ॥ ॥
