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The Svetāmbara Works
सन्मूहुर्ते राजलोकैः पुरोधादिमिः पंचशब्दनिनादपूर्व आनीय राज्ञो मूर्द्धि धृतं । एकस्यां दिशि श्वेतं । एकत्र नीलं । (ए)कत्रापि पीतं । कृष्णरक्तं विविधमणिमौक्तिककोटियुतं उपरि स्वर्णरत्नमणिषचितं कलशपंचकसहितं । एवं छत्रं लोकैरदृष्टपूर्व दृष्टं तदा राजा पुण्याधिको जातः । 'कलियुगे कि हरिश्चंद्रो मांधाता पुरोरवा नघुषश्रीरामो युधिष्टिरस्तैः समानः । कविकि( भि)- 5 वर्णितः ॥ असमसाहसांकादिचतुरशीतिबिरुदैरमिनंद्यमानः पुण्यमयं राज्यं पालयामासः एवं पुण्याराधनादचिन्त्यो(5)पि संपदः संपद्यते । तस्माद् धर्म एव कार्यः॥
इति विक्रमादित्यस्य पंचदंडप्रबंधः ॥ ७॥ श्रीपूर्णचंद्रसूरिकृतः ५ ॥ श्री। छ॥७॥
10 Reference.- For additional Mss. see Nos. 354 & 355 as well as
Jinaratnakośa ( Vol. I, p. 224).
पश्चदण्डातपत्रपबन्ध
Pancadaņdātapatraprabandha
1314. No. 354
1884-87. 5 Size.- 11 in. by 4} in. Extent.- 8 folios ; 17 lines to a page ; 64 letters to a line. Description. - Country paper thin, rough, tough and white; Jaina
Devanagari characters with frequent पृष्ठमात्रा; small, quite legible, uniform and very good hand-writing ; borders 20 ruled in two to four lines in black ink; a red thick line is drawn covering them; red chalk used; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin%3; fol. 8° decorated with a big design of nandyāvarta and its borders too have different designs ; unnumbered sides decorated with a small spot in red colour 25 in the centre; the numbered, in each of the two margins, too; edges of some of the foll. slightly worn out; condition on the whole good ; complete ; the five adešas begin and end as under :
1 Herein this work is named as Pañcadandachatraprabandha,
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[J. L. P.]