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480.] The svetāmbara Narratives
209 Begins.— fol. 16 gol
TASUT fragtii etc. as in No. 478. Ends. fol. 506
I gra å gegei etc. up to Aayat Target II (680) as in No. 478. This is followed by the lines as is under :
__ इति श्रीमहीपालकथाचरी(रि)त्रं संपूर्ण जातं 'पत्तने' श्रीरस्तु
HT 790 sft ET II 3 il soft II B II N. B.- For further particulars see No. 478.
महीपालचरित्र
Mahipālacaritra 10 ( Healafta)
( Mabivālacaritta )
783. No. 480
1899-1915. Size.— 114 in. by 4} in. Extent.-- 45–6 = 39 folios ; 13 lines to a page ; 60 letters to a line. is Description.- Country paper somewhat thick, brittle and grey;
Jaina Devanāgari characters; sufficiently big, quite legible, uniform and very good hand-writing ; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink; red chalk used; foll. numbered in both the margins; there is some square space kept blank 20 in the centre of the numbered and unnumbered sides as well ; there is a hole in the central space ; yellow pigment used for making corrections; foll. I to 6 missing ; so the work begins abruptly; it ends also so as the Ms. terminates abruptly; edges of some of the foll. slightly
gone; condition on the whole tolerably good. Age.- Pretty old. Author.-- Is he Viradeva Gaņi, pupil of Municandra of the Candra
gaccha?
27 [J. L. P.)
