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517.1 The Svetāmbara Narratives
261 सूत्र. 'मारिष ! श्रीसिद्धहेमचंद्राभिधानशब्दानुशासनविधानवेधसः । श्रीमदाचार्यहेमचंद्रस्य शिष्यं रामचंद्रमभिजानासि etc.
सूत्र० प्रजानां रघुविलासनामनि चतुर्थे प्रबंधे अनुरागः । etc. Ends.- fol. 1180
___ रामः- (जांबवतं प्रति ) अमात्य तर्हि स्वीकारमर्हति। जांब०-देव ! कः संदेहः ।।
रामः-सविनयरोमाञ्चं सीतां प्रति प्राणान् यद्विरहे(5)प्यहं विस्तवान् देवि ! प्रियप्राणित
स्तत्कृत्स्नव्यपदेशमेष समयः स्मेराक्षि ! नैव क्रुधाम् ।
सौमित्रेः कपिभर्तुरस्य च मे ends abruptly. Reference. --- This Ms. is noted in Jinaratnakośa ( Vol. I, p. 326 ).
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रत्नचूडकथा
Ratnacūďakathā
1333. 1887-91.
No. 517
Size.- 101 in. by 4g in. Extent.- IS folios ; 14 lines to a page ; 46 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper very think and white; Devanagari
characters with पृष्ठमात्राs; small, legible and elegant handwriting ; borders ruled in three lines in red ink ; red chalk used; foll. numbered as usual; edges and corners of some 20 foll.-slightly worn out; condition on the whole good ;
complete. Age.--- Old. Author.- Jhānasāgara, pupil of Ratnasimha Suri of the Tapa gaccha. . Subject.- A story of Ratnacüda illustrating the importance of 25
charity. For details see " A History of the Sanskrit Litera. ture of the Jainas" ( Vol. II, pt. I, pp. 251-255).
1 This term is used for principal characters in a drama,
