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7546 लघुक्षेत्रसमास (Laghu--kşetra-samāsa)
By Ratnasekhara.
Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
Substance: Foolscap paper, 13 x 5 inches. Folia 11. Lines 6-16 on a page. With an interlineal commentary in Hindi. Character modern Jaina nāgari. Appearance, fresh.
A mere fragment containing 84 āryās, ending abruptly in the 85th.
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2605 [लघु ] क्षेत्रसमास (Laghu-ksetra-samāsa)
by Ratnasekhara Süri
Substance : Country-made paper, 10 x 4 inches. Folia 30. Fulf of diagrams and tabular statements. Character, Jaina nāgari. Date, samvat 1617 = 1559 AD. Appearance, discoloured. Complete.
This is a Präkṛta work on the mythological geography of the Jains.
The Post Col. statement
संवन्- मुनीन्दुरसवह्निप्रमिताब्दे माघमासे कृष्णपक्षे चतुर्थी कर्मवाडयां शनिवारे लिखितेयं ज्ञानसौभाग्येन श्रीमद्विक्रमपुरवरे । कल्याणमस्तु । श्रीः स्यात् सर्वस्येति भद्रम् ।
Colophon of the work
28A,
सूरीहि जं रयणसे हरणामएहि अप्पच्छिमो विरइयं नरखिण्ड विखंभं || संसोहियं पयरणं सुयणेरि लोए पावे उतं कुसल रंगमयं पसिद्धि ॥ ६६ ॥ इति श्रीक्षेत्रसमासप्रकरणं समाप्तम् ॥ After this there are two short
treatises.
(I) The first commences : rr urgataण्ड क्षेत्रप्रमाणं संग्रहगाथा | and contains 24 gāthās. It has the following colophon :
इति क्षेत्रमा पुष्करार्धद्वीपे भरतादिक्षेत्रप्रमाणं । इति श्रीक्षेत्रसमासप्रकरणं समाप्तम् ।
(II) The second in 21 verses has the Colophon :
इति नन्दीश्वरस्तवनं समाप्तम् ।
The 21st gāthā runs thus :
इय रावण गिरिसर सिहर दिय वीय राय बिम्वाण | पूरण कए चउव्विह देव निकाया उसा मइ सया ||
cf. commentary to Laghu Ksetra-samāsa by Ratnaśekhara, the author himself has been described in W. pp. 859 to 860, with the
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