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The Svetāmbara Works
Description.- Country paper thin, rough and white; Jaina Deva
nāgari characters with frequent TEHETS; small, quite legible, uniform and very good hand-writing ; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink ; space between these pairs coloured red : red chalk used to mark out the num- 5 bering of the verses ; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin ; in several cases the unnumbered sides decorated in the centre with a spot in red colour while the numbered, in each of the two margins, too; yellow pigment rarely used; edges of a good many foll, partly gone; condition on the jo
whole tolerably good; complete ; 527 verses. Age.- Pretty old. Author.— Not mentioned. Subject.— A story of Nandayanti narrated for pointing out the pro
wess of Šila ( chastity ). Begins.- fol. 1. ॥ ५० ॥
अथ प्राह प्रभुर्दानरूपमुक्तो(७)पि मानवः । शीलसौभाग्यसंपन्नः सिद्धिलक्ष्म्या निषेव्यते ॥ १ तदधःकृतकल्पह(टु)कामधेनुमहानिधि । शीलरत्नं जयत्येकमनेकसुखकारणं ॥ २ etc. मत्वेति धीमता शीलं शीलनीयमनारतं ।
नंदयंती जनं तत्र नंदयंतीनिदर्शनं ॥ ६ etc. Ends.- fol. 12
शीलेन विश्वमपि नंदयंत्या।
बुधैश्चरित्रं शुचि नंदयंत्या ॥ विबुध्य कामेषु निमीलनीय।
सदैव शीलं परिशीलनीयं ॥ २६ इह शीलमहिमहिमकरकरनिकरसहोदरं सरंगायां । संसदि शशंस जिनपतिरवतंसमसमं समाचरणे ॥ ५२७ इति शीलविषये नंदयंतीकथा समाप्तः ॥ शुभं भवतु श्रीसंघस्य ॥ 30
