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467.]
The Svetambara Narratives
191
S
Country paper thin, tough and white; Jaina Devanagari characters with occasional s; small, quite legible, uniform and very good hand-writing; borders ruled in two lines in red ink; red chalk used; foll. numbered in the right-hand margins; there is some space kept blank in the centre of the numbered and unnumbered sides as well; in the left-hand margins the title is mentioned as मिलय सुंदरी ; edges of several foll. slightly gone; condition on the whole good; complete; four prastāvas in all; the extent of each of them is as under :
Prastava
Description.
ور
99
در
I
II
III
Ends. fol. 38b
IV
foll. Ia
7a
18b
26b
"
99
..
Total extent 2430 slokas. Age. Not modern.
Begins.- fol. 1.
to 7a
18b
266
39
""
د.
4 to 11 e11
चतुरंगो जयत्यर्द्दन् etc. as in No. 463.
386
श्रीमत्पार्श्वजिनेंद्र etc. up to मयेदं तथा ॥ २५ as in No. 20 465. This is followed by the line as under :
इत्यागमिक etc. up to ग्रंथानं २४३० ॥ छ ॥ as in No. 465. Then we have :
चतुर्विधश्रीसंघस्य शुभं भवतु ॥ सुंदरीकथा समाप्ता ॥
N. B. For further particulars see No. 463.
छ ॥ श्री ॥ छ ॥ इति मलय
मलयसुन्दरीचरित
No. 467
Size. 10 in by 48 in.
Extent. 89 folios; 12 lines to a page; 38 letters to a line,
LO
Malayasundaricarita
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1899-1915,
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30
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