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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
[537.
अक्षर भंगै ढाल ज मंगै राग भंगै जोइ वाचता रे वचनज भंगै रस नही उपजै कोइ सी० ९६ अक्षर जांणी ढाल ज जांणी रागज जांणी एह पांचां आगै वांचतांथी उपजस्यै अतिनेह सी० ९७ जब लग सायरनो जल जब लग सूरज चंद केशराज कहै तब लग ए ग्रंथ करौ आणंद सी० ९८
कलस रांम लक्ष्मण अनै रावण सती सीतानी चरी
विस्तारि भाषी चरित साषी वचजरचन करी परी संघ रंग विनोद वक्ता अनै श्रोता सुख भणी
केशराज मुनिंद जपै सदा हर्षवधामणी ९९
इति श्रीढालद्वाषष्टया रामयशोरसायने चतुर्थो(s)धिकारः संपूर्ण ॥ Reference.- Published in " Anandakāvya mahodadhi" ( Vol. II).
For extracts and additional Mss. see Jaina Gurjara Kavio (Vol. I, pp. 1522-524& Vol. III, pt. I, p. I015).
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रामायण
Rāmāyaṇa [ रामचरित्र]
[ Rāmacaritra ] No. 538
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____1871-72. Size. - 9} in. by 4} in. Extent.-- 99 folios ; 19 lines to a page; 38 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper thin, tough and white; Jaina Deva.
nagari characters; sufficiently big, quite legible, uniform and good hand-writing ; borders ruled in two lines and edges in one in red ink ; red chalk profusely used; foll. numbered in both the margins; in the left-hand margins the title is written as रामचरित्र; fol. 1 biank; so is fol. 996; condition very good ; complete ; composed in Samvat 1791; the entire work is divided into 7 kandas ; the extent of each of them is as under :
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1 Here the date of composition is given as 1683,
