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336.) Ends.
Hymnology: Śvetambara works fol. 6*
सदयति ॥३ भविक०॥४ इति श्रीपार्श्वनाथस्तुति समाप्त । छ
पार्श्वनाथस्तुति
Pārsvanätbastutis वृत्ति सहित
with vrtti No. 336
753.
1892-95. Size.- 101 in. by 45 in. Extent.- (text) 2 folios ; 7 lines to a page ; 17 letters to a line. 10
- (com.) , , ; 19 , , , , ; 21 „ „„ „. Description.- Country paper thin, tough and white ; Jaina Deva ·
någari characters; this Ms. contains both the text and its commentary; it presents such an appearance that the work is divided into three columns; but really it is not so ; the text 15 occupies the central place in the 2nd column; the commen. tary written just above this, then it is continued to the right-hand column and then to the bottom of the text ; there is some space kept blank in each of three columns; foll, may have been originally numbered in the right-hand 20 margin ; edges of both the foll. slightly gone ; the 2nd fol. partly worm-eaten ; condition on the whole good; both the text and its commentary incomplete ; the former has 7
verses instead of 9. Age.- Pretty old.
25 Author. - Bilhaņa. In the Gujarāti introduction (pp. 16-24 ) to
Jaina-stotra-sandoba (pt. 2) a detailed account of Bilhaņa is given. As stated there the name of his father is Jyeșthakalaśa and that of his mother Nāgadevi. Bilhaņa was alive from A. D. 1066 to A. D. 1085. His additional 30 works are :
(1) Fufgaapiatleet
(2) f ai TUTTET (C. A. D. 1085). Subject. - Eulogy of Lord Parśva in Malini metre.
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