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435.] The svetāmbara Narratives
149 Reference. -- For additional Mss. see Jinaratnakośa ( Vol. I, p. 282 ).
बप्पट्टिसूरिचरित्र
Bappabhattisūricaritra
776. '. No. 435
1892-95. Size.- 101 in. by 41 in. Extent. - 28-1=27 folios ; 11 lines to a page ; 33 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper thin and white; Jaina Devanāgarf
characters with occasional &Ags; big, perfectly legible, uniform and very beautiful hand-writing; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink ; dandas and a few lines at the to end written in red ink ; yellow pigment used for making corrections ; foll. numbered in the right-hand margins; there is some space kept blank in the centre of the numbered and unnumbered sides as well so that it forms a design; on fol. 270a svastika is drawn on both the sides of the te central space ; fol. 28b blank except that there are some items about extent etc.; some of the foll. slightly worm-eaten%3B condition on the whole good; the first fol. is missing; so this work begins abruptly; it, however, goes up to the end; extent 650 $lokas.
20 Age. - Samrat 1643. Author.- Not known. Subject.- Life of Bappabhatti Suri and that of king Ama. Begins. abruptly- fol. 20 ताः प्रचुरपरिच्छदाः शत्रवः संति । तान् सर्वान्
हंतुमहं सन्ना चलनासं । पित्रा निषिद्धः । वत्स ! बालस्त्वं ऽस्मै कर्म न .
प्रगल्भसे अत: मलं उग्रमेन । etc. Ends.- fol. 27b
धर्माजन्म कुले शरीरपटुता सौभाग्यमायुर्बलं ।
धर्मेणेव भवंति निर्मलयशोविद्यार्थसंपत्तयः । कांसाराच महामवाय सततं धर्मः परित्रायते ।
30 ___ धर्मः सम्यगुपासितो भवति हि स्वर्गापवर्गप्रदः ।।
