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Description.- Country paper thin, rough and white; Jaina Deva.
nāgari characters; big, fairly legible, uniform and tolerably good hand-writing ; borders ruled indifferently in three lines in black ink; yellow pigment used for making corrections ; foll. numbered in right-hand margins; in the S left-hand margins the title is written once as CUTIA and in the remaining cases as TUTTA ; there is some space kept blank in the centre of the numbered and unnumbered sides as well; this space as well as the central portion of each of the margins invariably decorated; complete ; 10
64 verses in all ; condition good. Age.- Not modern. Author.- Śālibhadra Súri, successor of Vajrasena Sûri of Raja
gaccha. His additional work is भरहेसर-बाहुबलि-रास composed . in V. S. 1241.
5 Subject.-- Advice given to the ordinary masses. Begins.- fol. 1. ॥६०॥ श्रीवीतरागाय नमः ॥
प्रणमवि देवि अंबाइ । पंचाणणगामिणि । समरवि देवि सधाई । जिनसासणि सांमिणि । १।
ढाल । प्रणमिम गणहर गोयमस्वामि ॥ दुरीय पणासि जेहनि नामि।
सहे(ह)गुरुवयणे संग्रह कीजि । भोला लोक सीषांमण दीजि । २ etc. Ends.- fol. 36
गुरुउवएसह अतिघणाए कहितु न लहुँ पारे तु एह बोल हईइडि धराय । सफल करो संसार तु। ६३ । सालिभद्र गुरु संकलीइ । ए सवि गुरुउपदेस नु (तु)।
पठि गुणे जे सांभलु ए । ते भरि टलि कलेस नु(तु)। ६४ । इति श्रीबुध(द्धि)रास संपूर्णः लिषतं ऋषि इंद्रजा। बा०कान्हापठनार्थः Reference.- Published in A. D. 1941 in “ Bhāratiya Vidyā ” ( Vol.
II, No. 1 ) as an appendix. For extracts and additional 30 Mss. see Jaina Gurjara Kario ( Vol. I, p. 2). Here it is
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