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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
रत्नसारकुमाररास
No. 529
Size. 10 in. by 4 in.
Extent.— 14 folios ; 14 lines to a page ; 36 letters to a line. s Description.- Country paper thin, rough, tough and white; Jaina Devanagari characters; big, perfectly legible, fairly uniform and good hand-writing; borders ruled in three lines in red ink; red chalk used; foll. numbered 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; condition very good; complete; composed in Samvat 1582.
Age.- Pretty old.
Author.– Vācaka Sahajasundara, pupil of Upadhyaya Ratnasamundar. For further particulars see Vol. XIX ( sec. 2, pt. I, p. 240).
Subject.– Life of Ratnasāra (kumāra) in Gujarati. Begins. fol. 1* ॥ ६० ॥
प्रथम विद्याविलासनी ढाल ॥
सरसति हंसगमणिनि य ( प ) यं प्रणमी । अविरल वाणि प्रकासो रे । 'सेज' मंडण श्रीरिसहेसर । श्री' जीराउलि' पास रे । नेमिकुमर 'गिरिनारि' अलंकृत । राजीमतीभरतारो रे ।
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भनयर 'थंभण' परमेसर । 'फलवधि' पास कुमारो रे ॥ १ ॥ etc. ‘अंचलि’गच्छि गरूआ गच्छिनायक सिद्धांत सागरसूरी (रि) रे सांप्रति गुणनिधानसूरि थभ रमीजे। पूरे मनह जगीस रे' । etc.
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Ratnasarakumārarāsa
616. 1895-98.
1 Instead of this verse we have the following in Jaina Gurjara Kavio
( Vol. I ) on p. 124 :
66 6 'उवएस 'गछ गिरुआ गछनायक रयणप्पहसुरीस रे
संप्रति श्रीसिद्धसूरि नमीजइ, पूरइ मनह जगीस रे".
