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418.] Hymnology: Svetambara works
59 मुनिमालिका
Munimālikā [साधुवन्दन]
[ Sadhuvandana]
797. No. 418
1892-95. Size.- 101 in. by 41 in. Extent.-- 4 folios ; 12 lines to a page ; 39 letters to a line. Description.-- Country paper thin, tough and white ; Jaina Deva
nagari characters; big, quite legible, uniform and very good hand-writing ; borders not ruled ; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin ; fol. 1• blank ; a portion from the right-hand margin gone in the case of each and every fol.; condition on the whole good; red chalk used; complete;
extent 85 ślokas. Age.- Samvat 1814. Author.- Not mentioned. Subject.-- A metrical composition in Gujarati. The first 10 verses
are followed by two dhalas one containing 20 verses and the other 16. Both are numbered continuously in the Ms.
This is an eulogy of Jaina saints. Begins.- fol. 1 ॥ ६०॥ अथ साधुवंदण लिख्यते ।
ऋषभ प्रमुष जिन पाययुग प्रणमुं सित(ब)सुषदायक मनहि उल्लास . पुंडरीक । श्रीगौतम आदिक मणधर मुरूमनि कमलपिकास १ प्रहसम सूधा साधु नहुँ मितु भावे श्रवण मुगुण भगवंत नामग्रहण करि पाप पपालं
परमानंद सुमति विकसंत प्रह. २ etc. Ends.-- fol. 4
मनहर श्रीमुनिमालिका
गुणगणपरिमलपूर कंठ ठवै उतम जिके
पांमै सुष भरपूर ३५ मा महाहनिसर गावता .. सरतरू सफल विहांण
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