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The Svetambara Narratives जयानन्दचरित्र
Jayānandacaritra
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1877-78. Size. — 99 in. by tin. Extent.-71 folios ; II lines to a page ; 32 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper thick, tough, and white ; Jaina Deva
nāgari characters with occasional geargis ; big, quite legible, uniform and very good hand-writing ; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink ; red chalk used; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin; fol. !' blank ; so is fol. 710 ; there is some space kept blank in the centre of the numbered and the unnumbered sides as well; yellow pigment used while making corrections ; edges of a few foll. slightly gone; condition on the whole good ; complete; composed in Samvat 1632 at Bārejā; the entire work is divided into five ullasas; the extent of each of them is as under:Ullasa
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, 62 , 71 Age.- Samvat 1686. Author.- Vana Kavi, a Jaina layman and a devotee of Vijaya
nanda Sûri. Subject.- A life-sketch of Jayananda Rajarsi in verse in Gujarati.
There are substories. Begins.- fol. 10 (५० ॥ भट्टारकप्रभुश्रीविजयानंदसूरिगुरुभ्यो नमः ।।
वस्तु ।। शांति जिनवर शांति जिनवर नमीय बहुभत्ति। श्रीसारद समरी मदा करुं चरित्र मनि रंग आणीय जयानदगुण वर्णवु श्रीविजयानंदगुरु लहीय वाणीय ।
तासं(स) तणइ सुपसाउलइ हुउ मनि उल्हास। .... सरस कथा सुणयो सह जिम मनि पहचाइ आस ॥ १॥
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