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JAINA LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY
VOLUME XIX SECTION 11: NARRATIVES
PART II The Śvetāmbara Works ( contd.)
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नन्दद्वात्रिंशिकाचतुष्पदी
Nandadvātrimśikācatuspadi ( raaainiging )
( Nandabatrisicopai )
1630. No. 322
1891–95. Size. — 9 in. by 44 in. Extent.-- 14 folios ; 9 lines to a page ; 30 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper thin, brittle and grey; Jaina Deva
nāgari characters; big, perfectly legible, uniform and very good hand-writing; borders ruled in two lines and edges in one in red ink ; space between the two lines coloured red; 15 foll. numbered in the right-hand margin ; red chalk used to mark out the numbering of the verses ; fol. 1a blank; so is fol. 140; edges of some of the foll. gone; bits of paper pasted to foll, 1", 15 and 145; condition on the whole tolerably good; complete; composed in 20
Samvat 1560. Age.- Samvat 1667. Author.- Simhakušala, pupil of Jõānaśila and grand-pupil of
Hemavimala Sūri. Subject.— A Gujarāti poem pertaining to Nanda. Cf. Nandabatrīsi 25
composed by Śāmalabhasta.
