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266. ) The Svetämbara Narratives
363 त्रिषष्टिशलाकापुरुषचरित्र
Trişastiếalākāpuruşacaritra ( GÅ C, FN -82)
( Parvan VIII, cantos 1-12)
708. No. 266
1892-95. Size.- 104 in. by 48 in. Extent. - 142 folios ; 13 lines to a page ; 42 letters to a line. Description. -- Country paper somewhat thick, tough and white;
foll. 46 onwards are on a thin paper; Jaina Devanāgari characters with occasional TANIS; big, quite legible, fairly uniform and tolerably good hand-writing ; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink; space between these pairs coloured red; red chalk used to mainly mark out the numbering of the verses; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin; unnumbered sides have a spot in red colour in the centre and the numbered, in each of the two margins, too; fol. 1 blank; condition very good ; complete : there are 12 sargas in all; the extent of each of them is as under :Sarga I foll. to II
176 361 362 ,
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III
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676 696
67b
982
VI VII
98a
11
VIII IX
1149 125 X 125
1336 XI , 1336 1386
XII , 1386 » 1426. Yellow pigment used at times; some of the foll, have stuck together owing to the presence of gum in the ink used. Not modern.
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Age.