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The work Atmahitakulaka of Ratnasimha Suri which consists of 30 verses is mentioned in Limbdi Catalogue as No. 185. Is it the same as one noted here?
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Reference.
आत्मानुशासन
No. 148
Atmānusāsana
1179. 1891-95.
Size.- 1og in. by 44 in.
Extent.- 2 folios ; 16 lines to a page ; 46 letters to a line. Description. Country paper thin and greyish; Jaina Devanagari characters with occasional gears; small, clear and very fair hand-writing ; borders ruled in three lines in red ink ; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin: small bits of paper pasted to foll. 1a and 2a ; edges of both the foll. I and 2 slightly damaged; condition on the whole good ; complete ; composed in Samvat ro42,
Age. — Samvat 1552.
Author.— Parśvanaga
Subject.— Advice given to the soul in 77 verses in Sanskrit. Begins.--fol. 1© ॥ ए६० ॥
सकलत्रिभुवनतिलकं प्रथमं देवं प्रणम्य सर्वज्ञं ॥ आत्मानुशासनमहं स्वपरहिताय प्रवि (व) क्ष्यामि ॥ १ ॥ etc.
Ends.-- fol. 20
इति पार्श्वनागविरचितमनुशासनमात्मनो विभावयतां ॥ सम्यग्भावेन नृणां न भवति दुःखं कथंचिदपि ॥ ७६ ॥ वर्गलचत्वारिंशत्समधिकवत्सरसहस्र (१०४२) संख्यायां ॥ भाद्रपद पूर्णिमायां बुधोत्तराभाद्रपदिकायां ॥ ७७ ॥ आत्मानुशासनं समाप्तम् || संवत् १५५२ वर्षे[ : ] ॥ छः ॥