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Hymnology: Svetambara works
Description. - Country paper thin, tough and white; Jaina Devanagari characters; small, perfectly legible, uniform and tolerably good hand-writing; borders ruled in a thick line in black ink; yellow pigment used while making corrections; there is only one fol, but it does not seem to have been numbered; its left-hand corner gone; condition on the whole tolerably good; complete ; seven verses in all ; there is an additional work viz. पार्श्वजिनस्तुति of one verse ; it begins and ends on fol. rb ( see Vol. XIX, pt. 1, No. 324 ). Age. -- Samvat 1757Author.— Vrddhivijaya, devotee ( pupil ) of Labhavijaya. It seems that he composed Sankhesvara-Parsvanathastavena in 38 verses in Vikrama Samvat 1730. If so, he is the granddisciple of Dhiravijaya of Tapă gaccha, and guru of Kanaka. vijaya (who composed balavabodha on Ratnakarap ancavimsatika in Vikrama Sarvat 1732 ).
Subject. A hymn in honour of Sankheśvara-Parsvanatha in Sanskrit. This small work is embellished by yamakas. Begins. -- fol. r* ॥ ६० ॥
कल्याण केलिकमला कमलाकर भी:
श्रीमान जिनो विजयते जयतेजसा (S) सौ | पार्श्वप्रभुर्धनमदानमदादिते यः
शंखेश्वरश्विरतरं रतरंगमुक्तः ॥ १ ॥ यक्ष(ना) मधामधरणाद् 'धरणा' धिपो (S) मूव सर्पो (S) पि वास्तवशुभो वसुभोगपानं । विध्वस्तमेव कमला कमलायताक्षी
। nds.-- fol. b
पद्मावती भयमतो यमतो मिन(न) ति ॥ २ ॥ etc.
भग्ना विपक्षविषया विषयातनाभि
हृष्टाः स मे सहृदया हृदयाभिमोदात् ।
पार्श्वप्रभोरपदं नु पदंडजस्थ
सेवां
सरद्रुमसमामसमाय मन्ये ॥ ६ ॥
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