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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
PALM-LEAF MSS.
Size of leaves, as they appear now, IL X 2 inches. Lines on a page, 5 to 7.
Aksharas in a line so to 55. 50. Moharajaparajaya [मोहराजपराजयः], an allegorical play in five acts, celebrating the support given by Kumarapala to the Jain religion; composed by YASAHPALA, the son of the minister Dhanadeva and of Rukmini, of the Modha family, and himself minister of king Ajayadeva. The play is represented as having been first acted at Thârâpadrapura, the capital of Marwar.
The last leaf of the MS. is numbered 105, but the leaves 65, 67-69, 73, 75, 80, and 83-91 are missing. The existing leaves are well preserved; they are numbered with the numeral figures on the right, and with letters on the left hand side.
Size of leaves 12 X 2 inches. Lines on a page 4 to 6.
Aksharas in a line 45 to 50. Begins : ओं ।। नमः सर्वज्ञाय || अमरविसरशीर्षक्रीडदापीडरत्न
प्रचुररुचिररोचिधामरैयुब्यपादं । रमयति शिवलक्ष्मीनिर्मलं चिन्मयं यं
स जयति वृषलक्ष्मा नाभिजन्मा जिनेंद्रः ॥ १॥ उत्तंसयति मुक्तिं यः सूक्तिमर्थ इवोज्वलः ।
नतोस्मि तस्मै श्रीपार्श्वस्वामिने परमात्मने ।। २॥ अपि च ॥
यः संरंभभवद्वलिस्थपुटितं चक्रे न भालस्थल भ्रूभंग न मुहुर्बबंध नयने निन्ये न ताम्रद्युतिं । नोचैर्वाचमुवाच वर्म न दधे दधे न चास्त्रं करे व्यामोह नृपमेवमेव जितवान् वीरः स वस्त्रायतां ॥ ३ ॥
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