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484] The Svetāmbara Narratives
216 .. मुनिपतिचतुष्पदी
Munipaticatuspadi (मुनिपतिचोपाह)
( Munipaticopāi ) No. 484
1898-99. Size.-98 in. by 43 in. Extent.— 25 folios ; 14 lines to a page ; 40 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper thin, rough and white; Jaina Deva
nāgari characters ; uniform and very good hand-writing ; borders ruled in two lines in black ink; red chalk used; foll. numbered in both the margins; there is some space to kept blank in the centre of the numbered and unnumbered sides as well; in the left-hand margin the title is written as मनपति; edges of the last fol. slightly gone; condition on
the whole good; complete; composed in Samvat 1550. Age.- Samvat 1673. Author.- Simhakula, pupil of Devagupta Sūri of the Bivandaņika
gaccha. Subject.- Life of Munipati, rajarsi. Begins.- fol. 1* ॥६॥ ॥ श्रीगुरुभ्यो नमः। गोयम गणहर गोयमगणहरपाय पणमेवि ॥
. 20 नामि नव न(नि)धि संपजि ॥ सयल सिधि स(से)वकह अप्पइ॥ एकमनां जेउ लगइ ॥ धरइ ध्यान तस लवधि थप्पइ । ' दोइ कर जोडी वीनवू ॥ दउ मझ वांणि विसेष्यिः
बोलसु राय मुनिपतिचरी ॥ कथाबंध सवसेषा । १॥ etc.' Ends.- fol. 250
दुहा वस्तु चुपइ जास । कहिता कवि उपजइ उहलास । सांभलतां ऊपजइ प्रमोद । एह चरित्र वैराग्यविनोद । ४ संवत पंनर पंचासु (१५५०) जी(जा)णि । वदि वैशाष मास
मनि आणी। दिन ससमी रचिउ रविवार ॥ भणइ गुणह मनि हरष अपार ॥५॥ १०
इति श्रीमुनिपतिऋषिचुपइ समाप्तः ॥ सं०१६७३वर्षे फागण वदि ८ दने ॥ स्तुःश्रीर कल्याणमस्तुः॥ छः 'मसाउलिग्रा'मध्ये लषतु।
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