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240.] Hymnology : Svetambara works
261 Description.- Country paper thin, tough and white; Jaina Deva
nāgari characters with occasional Teata ; small, perfectly legible, uniform and beautiful hand-writing ; borders ruled in four lines in black ink ; red chalk used ; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin ; condition very good except that edges of few foll. are slightly gone; there is some space kept blank in the centre of the numbered and unnumbered sides as well ; both the text and the commentary complete ;
the last verse of the former numbered as 11. Age.- Pretty old.
IO Author of the commentary.- Not mentioned. Subject.– A metrical composition in Prākrit along with its eluci
dation in Sanskrit. Begins.- (text) fol. I" ॥५६०५ नमः सर्वदर्शने ॥
अरिहंत भगवंतं etc. as in No. 238. , -- (com.) fol. I. अहेतं पूजायोग्यं ॥ अंतरंगरिपुजेतारं वा । भगवंतं
पूज्यं । सर्वज्ञ लोकालोकस्वरूपज्ञातारं etc. Ends.- (text ) fol. 10b जत्थ जिणाणं जम्मो etc. up to थुयमहिया ॥१११॥
___as in No. 238. 20 , - (com.) fol. Io° स्तुताः स्तुतिविषयीकृताः किंवि० श्रीमन्महेंद्रभुवनेंद्र। चंद्रमुनिदस्तुतमहिताः। श्रीमद्भिः महेंद्रैः श्रीपूज्यश्रीमहेंद्रसूरिभिः। भुव
नेद्राः पातालपतयः पृथ्वीपतयो देवेंद्राश्च । तथा चंद्रज्योतिष्व(क)स्वामिनः चंद्रसाहचर्याच मूर्या अपि गृांति(ते) सर्वैस्ताः प्रतिमाः श्रुताश्च महिताः । सत्कृताश्च ॥ १११॥ छ । शुभं भवतु । कल्याणमस्तु ॥ लेषकपाठकयोर्मगलं 25 ब्रूयात ।। छ। श्रीः॥छ ।॥छ । Then in a different hand we have:
इति प्रतिमास्तुति समाप्ता ॥ ॥ तथा तीर्थमालासूत्रवृत्ति समाप्ता Reference.- For additional Mss. of the commentary see Jinaratna
kośa ( Vol. I, pp. 160-161 ). On p. 160 the commentator is said to be Mahendra Suri of the Añcala gaccha. But I do
not think so. ___N. B.- For additional information see No. 238.
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