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154.] The Svetambara Narratives
201 कुरुचन्द्रमन्त्रिकथा
Kurucandramantrikatha No. 154
823 ( a ).
1892-96. Size.-- 9 in, by 44 in. Extent. — 14 folios; 14 lines to a page ; 30 to 32 letters to a line. Description. - Country paper somewhat thick, tough and grey ;
Jaina Devanagari characters; big, quite legible and tolerably fair hand-writing ; borders indifferently ruled in three lines in red ink ; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin ; numbered and unnumbered sides as well have in red colour a small disc in the centre and in the middle portion of each of the two margins, too; edges of some of the foll. slightly gone ; condition on the whole good ; complete ; this katha ends on fol. 4'; there are additional works as under :(1) TTAÇIÀ 501
foll., 48 (2) ATTÀ GETTIGEOT „ S (3) Waqia 4777441 No.104, 66 ( 4 ) 95EUR
» 9° 10b (s) aarà x7747F#01 106 „ 14'
(6) qaçla yauaa97 148 , 146.
On fol. 96 the scribe has utilized blank space by writing a number of times st, at, a, FT, T, † and and
then sft 3 times. Author.- Not mentioned. Subject. - A story of Kurucandra, a minister. It illustrates the
fruit of giving a resting place (apin ) to a Jaina monk. Begins,— fol. 1
180 il sriajating II
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