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Jaina Literature and Philosophy [260. Description.- Country paper thin, rough, tough and white; Jaina
Devanagari characters; very small, quite legible, uniform and very good hand-writing ; borders ruled in two lines in black ink; red chalk used to mark the numbering for the verses ; foll. numbered in both the margins; in the left-hand margins the title is written sometimes as पद्मचरि and at times as qgatta; there is some space kept blank in the centre of the numbered and the unnumbered sides as well; fol. r' blank; condition very good'; complete so far as 7 sargas are concerned ; the last (8th) incomplete ; the extent of each of them is as under :Sarga I foll. 1 to 3
3 , 9" 9 , 12
III _IV
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VI? VII
24 , ____VIII
27 , 27. 20 Age.-- Not modern. Begins.-- fol. 1. ॥ ॥
सकलाईप्रतिष्टा(ठा)नमधिष्टा(ष्टा)नं शिवभियः पूर्भुवःस्वस्तु(स्त्र)यीशानमाहत्यं प्रणिदध्महे ॥१ नामाकृतिद्रव्यमावः पुनतस्त्रिजगजनं क्षेत्रे काले च सर्वस्मिन्नईतः समुपास्महे ॥२॥
अय भीसुव्रतस्वामी etc. in as No. 261. ... Ends.- fol. 270
इत्याग्रह पर रामं ज्ञात्वा च सोघा(?)वचन
यावत् सौमित्रिणा तावस्थाप्य धारपाणिना ॥३ . . . भरतं च तथा यातं व्रताय कृतनिश्वयं
ज्ञात्वा सीता विसल्यायास्तत्राजग्मुः ससंबमः ॥ ४ (१०४) This Ms. ends thus. N. B. - For further particulars see No. 258.
1 These firat.. two verses occur in the beginning of TSPO ( parrant, canto 1).
