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स्वोपज्ञ विवरण सोबत ....
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उपदेशरत्नाकर
Upadeśaratnākara (तट १-२)
(Tatas I-II)
with svopajra vivarana No. 268
1106.
1887-91. Size.-- 104 in. by 44 in. Extent. — 195 folios ; 13 lines to a page ; so letters to a line. Description.- Country paper thin, rough and white; Jaina Deva
nagari characters with occasional पृष्ठमात्राs%3 sufficiently big, quite legible, perfectly uniform and very beautiful handwriting ; borders neatly ruled in four lines in black ink; red chalk used ; numbers for foll. written in the righthand margin ; fol. 1a blank; both the text and the svopajña commentary almost complete so far as the ist two tatas are concerned ; for, the text ends with the ist gāthå of the 12th taranga of the 4th (last) amsa cf the 2nd tata; bits
of paper pasted to fol. 18; condition on the whole good. Age.- Pretty old. Begins.- (text) fol. 3*
जयश्रीसंगम etc. as in No. 266. " - ( coin. ) fol. 1° ५६० ॥ श्रीसर्वज्ञाय नमः । श्रीगुरुभ्यो नमः ।
जयश्रीप्राप्तितो etc. as in No. 266. Ends.- ( text ) fol. 1956
लहिलं पहुत्तमहवा पहुबलमह संपयाइ सामत्थं । पडिणीअजयसिरीए जिणधम्मुज्जोअगा होह ॥ जिणतित्थं जिणभत्तो राया मंतीव सावउ(ओ) बलवं ।
साइसओ चारित्ती पंचुज्जुआ जिणमयंमि॥ ,, -( com.) fol. 195° इति° एकादशस्तरंगः ॥ छ ।
This is followed by the two verses of the text noted a bove, and after that we have:--
स्पष्टा । नवरं जिनस्य तीर्थ सामान्यतः प्रासादप्रतिमादिजन्मभूम्यादिरूपं श्री शचुंजया'दिसमहिमस्थानरूपं वा, चतुर्वर्णः श्रीसंघो वा तदेवोहयोतोऽनेकेषां भयसत्त्वानां दर्शनादपि दुर्दमामिथ्यात्वांधकारानिरासेन बोधिप्रकाशहेतुत्वात् । जिनभक्तो राजा श्रीसंप्रति श्रीकुमारपालादिः। जिनभक्तो मंत्री