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The Svetambara Narratives
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ताराकथा
Tārākatha
1810 (27). No. 250
1886-92. Extent.- fol. 290 to fol. 30'. Description.- Complete. For other details see No. -
a s 1310 (.).
1886-92.. Author.- Not known. Subject.- A story of Tara in connection with ila (chastity ). Begins.-- fol. 296
रक्षति विमलं शीलं । व्यसनस्था अपीहये ।।
जना भवद्वये श्रेयस्तारावत् ते अयंति हि ॥ १॥ etc. Ends.- fol. 30°
भूपो विरक्तो()ध(थ) एरोः समीपे
जग्राह दीक्षां कुलदेव्यकार्षीत् ॥ चंद्रं नृपं तदुणदृष्टचित्ता।
धर्म स कृत्वा प दिवं सभार्यः ॥ ६॥ इति शीले ताराककथा॥
तिलकमन्नरी
Tilakamanjari
791, No. 251
1895-1902. Size.- 109 in. by 4 in. Extent.— 181+ 3-1 =183 folios ; is lines to a page ; so letters
to a line.
Description.- Country paper tough and white; Devanāgari chara
cters; big, legible and good hand-writing ; borders of most of the foll. ruled in three lines and edges in one in red ink : numbers for most of the foll. entered twice as usual; fol. I. blank3; foll.46,65& 76 repeated; fol. 48 lacking; fol.7 wrongly numbered as 67: perhaps'6' left out to be struck off ; fol. 117 numbered once only : so are the
foll. 119, 173 and 176; complete ; condition very good. Age.- Not quite modern.
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