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The svetāmbara Narratives मङ्गलकलशचरित्र
lakalasacaritra No. 453
1650.
1891-95. Size.- 5 in. by 4 in. Extent.— 8 folios; 17 lines to a page ; 20 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper thin, tough and white; Jaina Deva
nāgari characters; small, quite legible, uniform and good hand-writing ; borders ruled indifferently in three lines in black ink and the space between the last two lines in vermilion colour ; red chalk used; foll. numbered in the 10 right-hand margins; there is some space kept blank in the centre of the numbered and unnumbered sides as well ;
condition very good ; complete. Age.- Samvat I549. Author.- Sarvānanda Sūri. Is he the author of Candraprabha- 15
caritra (V.S. 1302 ) or that of Jagaducaritra or is he some
other saint? Subject.- Narration of Mangalakalasa. Begins.- fol. 1 ॥ ॥
सयल मंगल सयल मंगलमूल मुणि नरनाह । 'आव(बु)' गिरि आदिजिणपायपत्र(उ)म (प)णमेवि भावण(णु) । 'कच्छोली'मुखमंडणउ । पासनाह तुम रिहिं धरेविणु । वाघ(?ग)वालि(णि) मरु वयणले अवच(?त)रि अक्षरमाला(ल)
मंगलकलसचरित्तह । भणिसु रुलाअ रसाल ॥ ' etc. Ends.- fol. 8b
मंगलकलस न(नि)वेसिउ राजि सुरसुंदर थिउ संजमकाजि । वलीउ ना(?ता)म नीसाणे घाउ । मंगलकलस महाबल राउ ॥ २६
पीत राग वसंत ॥ राजु करिति नरवर मनरंगि तिहुणासतीयसिणमणिसंगि ए पूछीय सहगुरु ज्ञानी मुनिवरू प । युव भवंतरि सारूप ॥ २७ ।
1 This verse is in "Vastu' metre.
