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242.
186.] The Svetambara Narratives
241 गुणवर्मकथा
Guņavarmakatha No. 186
1873-74. Size.- 97 in. by 44 in. Extent.— 60 folios ; 13 lines to a page ; 40 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper somewhat thick, tough and white;
Jaina Devanagari characters with occasional gara; sufficiently big, quite legible, uniform and very good handwriting; borders ruled in four lines in black ink; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin ; fol. 30 wrongly 10 numbered as 39; fol. 1 blank; there is some space kept blank in the centre of the numbered and the unnumbered sides as well ; yellow and white pigments used; a portion of fol. 59 gone; edges of the last fol, worn out; condition on the whole good; complete; composed in Samvat 15 1484 at Satyapura ; the entire work is divided into five sargas; the extent of each of them is as under :Sarga I foll. D to 10*
II 108 , 196 » III. „ ryb ... 306 IV 318
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„ 41' „ 606. Age.- Pretty old. Author.- Māņikyasundara Sūri, pupil of Merutunga Sûri of
Añcala gaccha. He has composed the following additional 25 works 'three of which are mentioned in the colophon of
this very work:(1) giraf (2) TUTJÁT79194
V. S. 1484 (3) deatzaita also called Vägvilasa (in Gujarāti) V. S. 1478 30 (4) AEISAJUS-aptaifa (5) T*TI*91 (6) soranta
V. S. 1463 1 For their names see p. 244, 31 (J. L. P.)
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