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Jaina Literature and Philosophy (501.
इति श्री विधिपक्ष'श्रीमदंचलगच्छे श्रीमेरुतुंगसूरिविरचिते मेघदूतमहाकाव्ये पतिविरहविवशराजीमती वितीर्यमाणोपालंभवर्णनो नाम age arri: il 8RCI
Then in a small hand-writing we have :
अतिरियं गृहीता सुगुणचंद्रेण 'पाली'मध्ये पं.लब्धिनिधानपार्श्वे ॥ Reference.- Published along with Silaratna's commentary by Jaina
Ātmananda Sabha as No. 76 in A.D. 1924. For additional Mss. see Jinaratnakośa ( Vol. I, p. 314) and for various commentaries ou Meghaduta see HSLJ (Vol. II, pt. 1, p. 230 ).
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मेघनादकथा
Meghanādakathā
1307 ( a ). No 502
1884-87. : Size.— 9f in by 44 in.
Extent.- 14 folios ; 13 lines to a page; 42 letters to a line. 15 Description.- Country paper thin, rough and white; Jaina Deva
nāgari characters with frequent q«S; big, quite legible, le fairly uniform and good hand-writing; borders ruled in two
pairs of lines in black ink; red chalk used; foll. nunbered in the right hand margins; there is some space kept blank in the centre of the numbered and unnumbered sides as well; yellow pigment used for making corrections ; fol. l blank; in the left-hand margins on foll. 11 to 10* the title is written as 11 ÀStar II afgo; and on foll. 100 to 14. as FTTH13151 and A 14T TIHTI aft; edges of a few foll. slightly gone; condition on the whole good; Àga13 ends on fol, 10*; this Ms. contains an additional work viz. AT Taigafa which commences on fol. 10° and ends abruptly on fol. 146
(see p. 32 ). Age.- Not modern. 30 Author.- Unknown. ni Subject. -- Life of king Meghanāda and that of Madanamañjari.
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