________________
478.]
The Svetāmbara Narratives
207
महीपालकथा
Mahipālakathā (महिवालकहा)
( Mahivalakaha) No. 478
795.
1892-95. Size.— 104 in. by 48 in. Extent.- 55 folios, 13 lines to a page ; 45 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper very thin, tough and white%3; Jaina
Devanagari characters with frequent पृष्ठमात्राs; sufficiently big, quite legible, uniform and very good hand-writing : borders ruled in three lines in red ink; dandas and practi• Io cally last two lines written in the same ink ; foll. numbered : in both the margins; there is some space kept blank in the centre of the numbered and unnumbered sides as well; yellow pigment used at times for making corrections ; in the left-hand margins the title is sometimes written as 15 मलिहपा० and sometimes as महिपालच०; fol 1 blank ; so is fol. 556; edges of few foll. slightly gone; condition on the
whole good ; complete ; 1817 verses in all. Age.- Samvat 1631. Author.- Viradeva Gani, pupil of Municandra of Candra gaccha. १० Subject.- Life of Mahipala. Begins.- fol. 1° ५ ६७ ॥ ॐ नमः सर्वज्ञाय ॥ छ ।
नमिऊण रिसहनाहं । केवलवरनाणदंसणसणाई। . विहियसुरेसरसेवं । कणयं व सया निरुवलेवं ॥१॥
सुरगिरिसारसुधीरो । संपत्ततवोदहिस्स परतीरो। कंव(च)णवनसरीरो । सो जयउ जिणेसरो वीरो।२ पणयजणपूरियासे चिंतामणिकप्परुक्खसंकासे । अजियाई बावीस । नमिऊण जिणे तिहुयणेसे । ३॥ करयलगयसु(मु)त्ताहलसिरिसं पिच्छंति सयलतियलोयं
जीह पसाएण नरा सा जयउ सरस्सई देवी ॥ ४ etc. Ends.- fol. 55%
एत्थ य ज उस्सुत्तं भणियं तं सुयहरेहिं पसिऊण । सोहेयव्वं सम्मं गुणाण वुट्ठी(ड्डि) करतेहिं ॥ १३ ॥ . . . . . ....
