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कुमारपालप्रबन्ध
No. 140
The Svetambara Narratives
Size.- ro‡ in. by 44 in.
Extent.— 90 folios; 15 lines to a page ; so letters to a line. Description.- Country paper thin, rough and greyish; Jaina Devanagari characters with frequent gaars; sufficiently big, quite legible, uniform and very beautiful hand-writing; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink; red chalk profusely used; foll. numbered in the right-hand 10 margin; fol. 1 blank except that the title is writtent here as under :
Age.—- Samvat 151 (?)
Begins. – fol 1 ६० ॥
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Kumarapalaprabandha
1230.
1886-92.
श्रीकुमारपालप्रबंधः वा सर्वदर्शन सामान्यताप्रबंधः
There is some space kept blank in the centre of the numbered and the unnumbered sides as well ; a few foll. 15 slightly worm-eaten; edges of the last two foll. partly gone; condition on the whole good ; yellow pigment used while making corrections; complete. In the end we have सर्वदर्शनसामान्यताप्रबन्ध.
Ends. -- fol. 890
ॐ नमः श्रीमहावीर जिनेंद्राय परमात्मने । परब्रह्मस्वरूपाय etc. as in No. 139.
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आकर्ण्य प्रतिकाननं etc. up to प्रमितवत्सरे रुचिरः । ७ ॥ as in No. 139. This is followed by the lines as under:
इति श्री सोमसुंदरसूरीश्वर शिष्य श्री जिन मंडनोपाध्यायैः श्रीकुमारपालप्रबंधो यथादृष्टश्रुतानुसारेण योजितः चिरं जीयात् संवत् १५१ (१) वर्षे ज्येष्ठ शुदि ३ सोमे श्री'वश्वल' नगरे विप्रगोविंदेन लिखितः ॥ कल्याणमस्तु ॥ छ ॥
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अथाऽन्यस्मिन्नवसरे श्रीसिद्धराजे संगदेव संसारसागरतितीर्षया प्रत्येकं सर्वदर्शनेषु । सर्वदेशेषु देवत स्वधर्मतस्वपात्रतत्र जिज्ञासया पृच्छयमानेषु । निजस्तुतिपरनिंदापरेषु संदेहदा (दो) लाऽधिरूढमानसः श्री हेमाचार्यमा कार्य
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