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The Svetāmbara Narratives 'रामचरित्र
Rāmacaritra [ refta]
[ Padmacaritra ]
308. No. 534
1871–72. Size.— 103 in. by 43 in. Extent. — 148 folios ; 14 lines to a page ; 32 letters to a line. Description. - Country paper thin, very brittle and grey ; Jaina
Devanāgari characters ; big, perfectly legible, uniform and very good hand-writing ; borders ruled in three lines in red ink ; yellow pigment used for making corrections ; foll. 10 numbered in the right-hand margins; strips of white paper pasted to edges of several foll. ; so in a number of cases foliation is gone ; in some cases foll. are numbered in the lefthand margins when the toliation in the other margins is gone ; condition on the whole tolerably good ; red chalk 15 used; in the centre of the numbered and unnumbered sides as well there is some space kept blank so that it forms a design ; complete; ten sargas in all ; a piece of white
paper of the size of a fol. pasted to fol. 19; fol. 1 blank. Age.- Samvat 1695.
20 Author.- Devavijaya Gaņi ( see No. 361 ). Subject. — Life of Rāmacandra. Begins. — fol. 1° y coll EftoTUTETIT AA: ||
सकलभट्टारकप्रभुश्रीपश्रीविजयाणंदसूरीश्वरगुरुभ्यो नमः ॥
873 sfigarafart, etc. as in No. 361. Ends.- fol. 1466
Taalt aga ga1... ... etc. up to aafa ary. This is followed by the lines as under :
___ भवतु श्रियां पदं ४ इति प्रशस्तिः समाप्ताः छ
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30 1 This is same as Padmacaritra No. 361. 2 This is not reproduced as letters on fol, 147a are indistinot,
