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चन्दन-मलयागिरि-चतुष्पदी Candana-Malayagiri-catuspadi (चन्दन-मलयागिरि-चोपड) (Candana-Malayagiri- copai)
687. No. 202
1892-95. Size.- Iod in. by 43 in. Extent.— 12 folios ; 12 lines to a page ; 33 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper thin, tough and greyish; Jaina
Devanagari characters; big, quite legible, uniform and 'very good hand-writing; borders ruled in two lines and edges in one in red ink ; dandas and sometimes some words here and there written in red ink ; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin; edges of several foll. gone; condition on the whole tolerably good ; complete ;
composed in 8 dhalas in all. Age.-- Pretty old. Author:- Bhadrasena. Subject.— A life-sketch of Candana and Malayagiri in Gujarati
_in verse. Begins.- fol. " ॥६॥॥ श्रीवि(बी)तरागाय नमः॥
श्रीजिनवरचरणे नमी गासु ढाल रसाल । चंदन-मलयागरी तणो । उत्तम कहुं उपाय ॥१॥ स्वस्ति श्री विक्रमापुरी | प्रणमी श्रीजगदीस । तनमन जीवन सुषकरण | पुरण मुझ मत जगीस ॥२॥ वरदाइक वर सरस्वती । मसी(ति)विसत(स्ता)रण मात । प्रणतुं मन धरि मोदसं । हरण वीधनसंघात ॥ ३॥ मम उपगारि परम गुरु । गुण अषयदातार। बंदु ताके पगजुगल । भद्रसेन मुनीराय ॥४॥ किंहां चंदन किहां मलयागीरी।। किहां सायर किहां नीर।।
कहेसं ताकी वारता सुणो सहु विरतंत ॥५॥ etc. Ends.- fol. 120
सरवरनी सुष भोगवी । 'महावी(वि)द(दे)हे' उतार । करणी ने बल पामसी । अविचल सीवपुर ठाम । सो० ४९ । पु.॥ धन धन एहवा मुनीवरु । धन तेनो अवतार । सो०।
प्र(ह) उठीने प्रणमीइं । नामह नव निध होय । सो०। ५० पु०॥ 34 [J.L.P.]
