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भीमकुमारकथा
No. 449
Jaina Literature and Philosophy
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Size. 10 in. by 4 in.
Extent. 7 folios; 17 lines to a page; 54 letters to a line. Description. Country paper thin, tough and grey; Jaina Devanagari characters with frequent s; small, perfectly legible, uniform and very beautiful hand-writing; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink; the space between the pairs coloured red; numbers for the verses, their dandas etc. written in red ink; foll. numbered in the right-hand margins; in the left-hand margins the title is written as ; edges and corners of each and every fol. more or less gone; fol. 4 torn; condition on the whole tolerably good; unnumbered sides have a small spot in red colour in the centre, whereas the numbered in each of the two margins, too; incomplete as it ends abruptly.
Age. Pretty old.
Author.
Not known.
Bhimakumarakathā
1328. 1887-91.
[ 449.
Subject, Narration of Bhimakumara illustrating the importance of ahimsa (non-injury to living beings ).
Begins.- fol. 1
सर्वदेवा न तत् कुर्युः सर्वदानानि चैव हि ।
सर्वे तीर्थामिषेकाश्च यत् कुर्यात् प्राणिनां दया ॥ १ । कृमिकीटपतं गेषु तृणवृक्षादिकेष्वपि ।
दयां सर्वत्र कुर्वीत यथा ( ss) त्मनि तथा परे ॥ २
स्वयं रक्षति यो जीवान् रक्षयत्यपरानपि ।
इहापि सो (s) तामृद्धिमेति भीमकुमारवत् ॥ ३ ॥ etc.
Ends. fol. 7a
स्वयं प्राणिवधादेवं विनिवर्त्य परानपि ।
निवृत्य परमां सिद्धिमाप लोकद्वये ( s) पि सः ॥ ९२
