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जो लग राज करे सुरइंदो जां लग 'मेरु' गिरंदो जी जो लग रबू थिर रवि चंदो जैन धरम चिर नंदो जी १५४०
धन धन श्रीकेसी मुनराया ॥
इति श्रीकेसीकुमारचरित्र संपूर्ण ॥ श्रीः श्रीः श्रीः etc. Reference. - For an additional Ms. see Jaina Gurjara Kavio ( Vol.
III, Pt. 2. p. 1458).
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केशि-प्रदेशी-रास
Kesi-Pradesi-rasa
669. No. 168
1892-95. Size.— jo in. by 47 in. Extent.-- 22 folios ; 15 lines to a page ; 42 letters to a line. Description.-- Country paper thick, rough, tough and greyish ;
Jaina Devanagari characters; big, quite legible, fairly uniform and very good hand-writing ; borders ruled in three lines in red ink and edges in one in the same ink ; red chalk used ; foll. numbered in both the margins ; fol. I' blank ; so is the fol. 226; red chalk profusely used ; the title is written in the left-hand margin at times as केसीपरदेसी and many a time as परदेसी चौ०; yellow pigment used while making corrections; edges of the ist fol. slightly
gone ; condition on the whole very good ; complete. Age.-- Samvat 1813. Author.- Jianacanda, pupil of Dayadharma. Subject.-- An episode pertaining 10 Kesin, a monk and Pradesi,
a king. Begins.- fol. 10 ॥ ६ ॥
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प्रणभी श्रीअरिहंत समरी सिद्ध अनंत आचारिज उवज्झाय बलि साधु सहू भगवंत १ सासननायक सलहीयइ घरदाई वधमान गुरु गोतम गुण गाईयइ दायक पंछित दान २ etc.
