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The Svetāmbara Narratives
123 च शाकिनीनाम मुपद्रवं भूयांसं विलोकयान्यदा मंत्र यंत्रतंत्रौ । ( in
complete ). N. B.-- For further particulars see No. 92.
कथारत्नाकर
Kathāratnākara
1270. No. 94
1884-87. Size.- 10 in. by 41 in. Estent.- 219-5-30=184 folios; 13 lines 10 a page ; 38 letters
___to a line. Description.- Country paper thin, tough and white ; Jaina Deva- ro
nāgari characters with rare gyarais; big, persectly legible, uniform and very good hand-writing; borders ruled in three lines in red ink; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin ; there is some space kept blank in the centre of the numbered and the unnumbered sides as well ; the 15 first five foll. missing ; so are foll. 123 to 152 ; thus this work begins abruptly; it goes up to the end but there, too, a portion of the colophon is incomplete ; in all there are 258 kathas ; the last is about Sita ; left-hand corners of the the first few foll. gone; edges of the last fol. worn 20
out; condition on the whole good. Age.- Pretty old. Begins. (abruptly )- fol. 6 वा भाग्यं ते तु सर्वे(s)पि 'गंगा'प्रवाहा इव
पुण्य स्वरूपा इति तं निर्भत्स्य पुरीं प्रविशन श्रेणिको या करसरंजितचरणां यथौचित्यं कठाद्यवयेषु विनिवेशिताभरणां कज्जलकलितनेत्रां तांबु(बू)लपरि- 25 तवनां परिहितविवधवर्णवसनां प्रपंचितपंचेषूस्मयकारिहसनां पुष्पपूरित
धम्मिल्लसंदी सगी श्रमणीवेषधारिणीमेको रमणीमद्राक्षीत् etc. Ends. - fol. 218
निअसीलमहामंत्रे(ते)ण पबलं जलणं जलं कुणंतीए।
सीलूघोसणपडहो अज वि रणझणइ सीआए ॥७॥ इति देवैर्वेदिता पूजिता संस्तुता सीता रामभ(च)द्रमभणत हे स्वामिन् ! यदि निःकलंका(5)यह लोकापवादभीरुणा स्वया सण निम्मोक इव त्यक्त्या(क्ता) तदा दूरंतमम्र्मकर्मकातरया मया(s)पि देवपादा मुमुचिरे इति प्राणपतिमभिधाय जनकात्मजा सत्वरमेव प्रावाजीत् ।
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