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महावीरचरित (Herereafte) ['greret
Azfreierat ] No. 476
Mahāvīracarita ( Mabāvīracariya ) [Duriyarayasamira'thotta ]
251. 1873-74.
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Size.— 104 in. by 4} in. Extent.-- s folios ; 13 lines to a page ; 46 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper thin, brittle and greyish ; Jaina Deva
nāgari characters with occasional TGATTIS ; big, quite legible, 10 uniform and very good hand-writing; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink; the space between these pairs coloured red; dandas written in red ink; foll, numberd in the right-hand margins ; unnumbered sides decorated with a spot in red colour in the centre; the numbered in each of 15 the two margins, too; yellow pigment used for making corrections; edges of several foll. more or less gone; condition on the whole tolerably good; fol. gb blank; complete;
44 verses in all. Age.- Pretty old.
20 Author.- Jinavallabha Gani of the Kharatara gaccha. He is the
successor of Abhayadeva Sūri and guru of Jinadatta Süri. He died in V. S. 1167. For his additional works etc. see DCGCM ( Vol. XVII, pt. , p, s and Vol. XIX, sec i,
pt. 2, p. 312). Subject. - Life of Lord Mahāvīra in Prākrit. Begins.— fol. 1a II GOL
नमिय जिणमुसभमुमयसदेसविलसंतकसिणकेसचयं । मुहससिजोण्हातण्हारसभमरचकोरजुयलं च ॥ १। असुरिंदसुरिंदनरिंदविंदवंदियधुयस्स तस्सेव । atautoane Panter gafa far pas ardi FT3 U 21 etc.
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