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The svetāmbara Works पाण्डवचरित्र
Pāņdavacaritra
443. No. 378
1882-83. Size.-- 10 in. by 43 in. Extent.-- 166-1=165 folios; 16 lines to a page; so letters to a line. S Description.-Country paper thin, tough and greyish; Jaina Deva
nāgari characters with occasional Teat ; big, quite legible, fairly uniform and very good hand-writing; borders ruled in three to four lines in black ink ; red chalk used; foll. numbered twice in the right-hand margin; bits of paper 10 pasted to corners of several foll, and strips of paper to edges of some ; condition on the whole tolerably good; the first fol. missing ; so this work begins abruptly ; it, however,
goes up to the end ; 18 cantos in all. Age- Samvat 1451 (?).
S Author.-- Deva prabha Sūri, pupil and successor of Municandra
Súri of the Maladhārin gaccha. Subject.- Lives of the five Pandavas. Begins abruptly- fol. 2. तत्रैकं प्रेमरंगेण कुरंगीबाहुकारिणं ।
20 दूरा(त्) कुरंगमालौ(लो)क्य सो(s)धि(ज्यं) विदधे धनुः ॥ २५ । स प्रेयसी पुरस्कृत्य संत्रासतरलेक्षणः ।
पलायामास सारंगः कांदिशीकमनाः पुरः ॥२६ etc. Ends.- fol. 166
यावत् संसारतापग्यतिकरमिदुरा वाग् जिनानां मुनींद्र
प्रज्ञाकांतावगाढा विधुरयति सदा दीर्घिकादर्पमुद्रां । तावनिर्निद्रकार्तस्वरकमलकलां पुष्पदश्रांतमस्यां
विश्व विद्वविरेफार्पितमहिममहाकाव्यमेतद् धिनोतु ॥ ८२ इति 'मलधार'श्रीदेवप्रभसूरिविरचिते पांडवचरिते महाकाव्ये बलदेवस्वर्गगमनश्रीनेमिनाथपांडवनिर्वाणवर्णनो नाम अष्टादशः सर्गः १० समा॥॥
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