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90 , 160
28.) Hymnology : Svetambara works Description.- Country paper thin, tough and white ; Jaina Deva.
nāgari characters with occasional qaras; small, quite legible, uniform and very good hand-writing; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink; red chalk used ; foll, numbered in the right-hand margin; yellow pig- is ment used while making corrections; there is some space kept blank in the centre of the numbered and unnumbered sides as well; it is so kept that it gives rise to a pattern; edges of some of the foll. gone ; condition on the whole tolerably good; both the text ( containing 25 to verses ) and the commentary complete ; the latter ends on fol. 48 and it is composed in Samvat 1519. This Ms. contains in addition the following 'five works :(1) ştir@aaruafa with com. foll. 4*
नेमिनाथचरित्र „ „ „ 7086 15 (3) qatargarita
80 , gb (4) Agretraita (5) Arattaa
„ 166 , 176. Age. — Not modern. Author of the text.- Jinavallabha Sūri. For his life and works see 20
Vol. XVII, pt. 5, p. s and Vol. XVIII, pt. I, pp. 210-212, 3 See also the Sanskrit introduction (pp. 25-27 ) of Jaina
stotra-sandoha (pt. I). „ of the commentary.—Sādhusoma Gani, pupil of Siddhāntaruci. Subject.- Eulogy of Adinātha mentioning his previous births and
important events of his life in Prākrit together with its
explanation in Sanskrit. Begins.- ( text ) fol. 1
नमिय जिण(मु)सभम[स]भयंसदेवबिलसंतकसिणके सचयं । मुहसमिन्हातहारसभभिरचकोरजुपलं च ॥ १ असुरिंदसुरिंदनरिंदविंदवंदियथुयस्स तस्सेव ।
थोयारहियकर किर सुचरियकणकित्तणं काहं ॥ २ 1 Of them the first four works along with the text noted here make up five hymns, and all of them are published.
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