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The svetāmbara Narratives
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Description.- Country paper very thin, tough and white ; Jaina
Devanāgari characters ; small, quite legible, fairly uniform and very good hand-writing; some of the foll. written in big hand-writing ; borders ruled in two lines and edges in one in red ink; some of the foll. have stuck together probably due to the presence of gum in the ink used ; foll. numbered in the right-hand margins; fol. 1 blank ; lacure on fol. 86; condition very good ; complete ; 19 dhalas in all ; composed at Rājanagara ( Ahamedabad )
in Samvat 1857. Age.-Samvat 1882. Author.- Padmavijaya, pupil of Uttamavijaya of the • Tapa'
gaccha. His life is narrated in Jaina Gurjara Kavio ( Vol. III, pt. I, pp. 73-75) and his various works are there
noted on pp. 75-100. Subject.- Life of Madana and that of Dhanadeva. Begins.- fol. 1 ॥ ६ ॥
वीहरमांन प्रभु राजता वंदू जीनवर वीश पदपंकज प्रणमुं पासना जेहनी चढती जगीस १ गुणदायक गूणस्युं भर्या प्रणमुं गुरुनां पाय
भमता जे भवसायरे प्रवहणश(स)म परषाय २ etc. Ends.- fol. 14°
ओगणीसें ढालें करी रे 'ला. संपूर्ण थयो रास सं० मुनी पांडव गज चंद्रमा (१८५७) रे ला० वरस ते श्रावण माश(स) सं० १३ पंचमी उज्वल पक्षनी रे ला० सुर्ज(य)वार सुप्रसीध सं० 'राजनगर' माहे रह्यां रे ला० एह मनोरथ सीध सं० १४ 'तप'गच्छगयणदीणेसरु रे ला० वीजयदेवसुरीराय सं० वीनयवंत तस पाटवी रे ला० वीजयसीहसुरीराय सं० १५ पंडीतरल(स्न)सीरोमणी रे ला० कीधो क्रीयाउधार सं० सा(सी)श ताश सत्यवीजयगणि रे ला० सूभ कीरीया भाचार सं० १६
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1 This is an abbreviation of लाला.
