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पद्मचरित
( पउमचरिय )
[ राहवचरिय ]
No. 360
5 Size. 12 in. by 47 in.
Extent. 144 folios; 18 lines to a page; 75 letters to a line. Description.-- Country paper thin, rough, tough and greyish; Jaina Devanagari characters with frequent gas; small, perfectly legible, uniform and very good hand-writing; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink; red chalk used; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin; fol. 14+ blank; there is some space kept blank in the centre of the numbered and unnumbered sides as well; this central portion seems to have been exposed to fire; some of the foll. wormeaten to some extent; condition on the whole tolerably fair; complete ; 118 cantos; composed in Vira Samvat 530 i. e. Vikrama Samvat 60.
Age.-- Not quite modern.
Jaina Literature and Philosophy
[360
Padmacarita
(Paumacariya) [Rahavacariya]
360. 1871-72.
सिद्धसुरकिन्नरोरगदणुवइ भुवणिंद चंदपरिमहियं ।
उसहं जिणवश्वसहं अवसप्पिणिआइ तित्थयरं ॥ १
Author.-- Vimala, pupil of Vijaya and grand-pupil of Rāhu Sūri of Năila kula.
Subject. Life of Padma i. e. Rama according to the Jaina viewpoint. For details of this oldest available Jain epic' see my book “ पाइय ( प्राकृत) भाषाओ भने साहित्य " ( pp. 85-89 ). Begins. fol. 1° ॥ ६० ॥ नमो वीतरागाय ॥
अजिअं विजियकसायं अपुणब्भव संभवं भवविणासं । अभिनंदण च सुमहं पउमाभं परमसत्था (च्छा ) यं ॥ २etc. नामावलियनिबद्धं आयरियपरंपरागयं सव्वं । वोच्छामि पउमचरियं अहाणुपुवि समासेणं ॥ ८ etc.
