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472.] The svetāmbara Narratives
199 मल्लिस्वामिचरित
Mallisvámicarita
608. No. 472
1895-98. Size.- 12 in. by 4g in. Extent.- 89 folios; IS lines to a page; 52 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper thick and grey ; Devanāgari characters
with पृष्ठमात्राs%3 small, legible and good hand-writing: red chalk used; borders ruled in four lines in black ink; space between the pairs coloured red; the unnumbered sides have a small spot in red colour in the centre; the numbered, 10 in each of the two margins, too; foll. numbered as usual; . fol. 1a blank; the right-hand portions of foll. 1b and 2a kept blank perhaps with a view to decorate them with pictures of some of the Jinas; edges etc. of most of the foll. damaged; in some cases, they are even worn out; the Isth is fol. seems to have been exposed to fire ; a piece of white paper pasted to fol. 34; so the corresponding written portion wanting; foll. 35-49 have small pieces of paper pasted to their edges ; fol. 49 torn; fol. 55 very badly;
condition unsatisfactory; incomplete. Age.- Fairly old. Author-- He may be Vinayacandra Suri. Subject.- Life of Mallinatha, a Tirthankara of the Jainas. Begins.- fol. 1 ॥५६॥ ॥ ओ (7) अहं नमः ॥
महातेजःप्राप्तः सर्वमंगलोल्लासकारणं । अर्हन् गणश्रियं प्रीणन् जयताद् वृषभध्वजः॥१ कुंभजन्मासितध्यानांजलिपीतभवोदधिः । श्रीमन्माल्लर्जितो(नो) भूयात् पापवातापितापनः ॥२ ओ(?)महीनो द्विजिह्वो(s)पि क्षमाभारक्षमो(5)जनि । आश्रयाद् यस्य स स्याद् वः श्रिये पाश्वजिनेश्वरः ॥३ वंदारुसुरकोटीरवकोटीचक्रचुबिताः।। जीयासुर्वीरनाथख क्रमद्वंद्वनखंदवः ॥ ४
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