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14] Hymnology : Svetambara works . 167 चतुर्विशतिजिनस्तबन
Caturvimbatijinastavana
1256.
1891-95. Size.— 7} in. by 4s in. Extent.- 3 folios ; 14 lines to a page ; 29 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper thin, tough and greyish ; Jaina Deva
någari characters with frequent TEATS; big, bold, quite legible, uniform and beautiful hand-writing ; borders ruled in four lines in black ink; a part of the first line, numbers for the verses, their daņdas and about two lines from the end written in red ink; foll. numbered in the right-hand
margin; small bits of paper pasted to fol. 1,2 and 3%3; condition on the whole very good; complete ; 25 verses
in all. Age.- Pretty old. Author.- Not mentioned. Subject.- A hymn in 25 verses in Sanskrit wherein all the 24
Tirthankaras of this Hunda avasarpiņi are praised in Vastu metre. All the verses and most of their feet, too, are in
" asrnkhala-baddha" yamaka. Begins.- fol. !
प्रथमजिनवर ! प्रथमजिनवर ! निखिलनरनाथासंसेवितपदकमल ! कमलबंधुबंधुरमहोदय ! दययोद्धतभीममवरूपपगतलोकसमुदय ! . दयमानश्रियसुसमताममलचरित्रपषित्र ! वित्रस्ताखिलदुरित ! जय जय निकारणमित्र ! ॥१॥ मित्रभासर! मित्रभासर ! जय श्रीअजित ! विजयाजितशत्रुभव !
भुवनसूरदूरिततमोभर ! 1 Hemacandrasuri has defined " Vastuka" metra in Chando'nusasanaas under:
"चौलान्तती ची तो वस्तुकम् ॥५-२४॥" 2 This may remind one of Suyagada (L,15). See my work A History of the Canonical Literature of the Jainas (p. 120 ) and Agamonun Digdarlang p.65).
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