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The Svetāmbara Narratives
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रत्नशेखरनरपतिकथा
Ratnasekharanarapatikathā ( TAUTATE CACAEMET) ( Rayaṇaseharanaravaikabā ) पर्वतिथिविचार
Parvatithivicāra [geefaleratsire ]
[ Pavyatibiviāra ]
1318. No. 524
1886–92. Size — 104 in. by 45 in. Extent.-- 21 folios ; 15 lines to a page ; 44 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper thin, tough and white ; Jaina Deva
nāgari characters; big, quite legible, fairly uniform and 10 tolerably good hand-writing ; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink; the space between these pairs coloured red; foll. numbered in the right-hand margins; there is some space kept blank in the centre of the numbered and unnumbered sides as well ; fol. 21• blank; some of the is dandas written in red ink; edges of a few foll, slightly gone; condition on the whole good; complete; composed
at Citrakūta. Age.- Sarovat 1614. Author.- Jinaharşa, pupil of Jayacandra Sūri. His additional works 20 are as under :
(1) ITIATHTER (2) afastafe V. S. 1525 (3) 1691eafa V. S. 1497
(4) fãafara afatiadhETE V. S. 1502. 25
For further information the reader may refer to my
introduction (pp. 8-9 ) to “ stateracatararat". Subject.– A story about Ratnaśekhara, a king. Begins. fol. 1' 60 BE
कल्याणस्थिनिलयं । नमिऊणं वद्धमाणं जिणचंदं । पम्वतिहीण विभारं । भणामि अणिमानुसारेण ॥१॥
