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धर्मपरीक्षाकथा
No. 320
Supplement: The Svetambara Narratives
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Size.- 11‡ in. by 4g in.
Extent.— 12 + 1 = 13 folios; 16 lines to a page; to letters to a line. Description. Country paper thin, rough and greyish; Devanagari characters with occasional gas; small, clear and good hand-writing: borders ruled in four lines in black ink ; red for chalk used; numbers for foll. entered just in the corners of the right-hand margins; fol. 11 repeated; the last fol. though rath numbered as 13; perhaps because the rath fol. is missing; edges of the first fol. slightly damaged; con. dition very fair; complete; composed at the request of Devacandra, pupil of Padmanandin, a spiritual descendant of Pujyapada.
Age. Does not appear to be modern.
Author.— Rāmacandra. He is a Digambara. Consequently this work ought not to have been assigned a place in this Part I. Anyhow this work is copied by a Svetambara
monk.
A religious discourse.
Subject. Begins. - fol 1 || ६० ॥ ॐ नमो जिनाब ।
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Dharmapariksakathā
1270. 1891-95.
Ends. - fol. 12h
इति रामचंद्रेण मुनिना गुणशालिना ।
कता धर्मपरीक्षेपं सुरज्या सुवि कोविदैः ।। कर्णाटीत रवतो वीक्ष्य लाटिं च मुबि दरीं । ari धर्मपरीक्षांत ( कृता) कतिरियं ततः श्रीपूज्यपादसइंशे (जा)तोऽसौ निहुंगवः । पद्मनंदीति विख्यातो भव्यम्युप्रबंदितः ॥ 55 [J. L. P.]
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प्रणिपत्य जिनं भक्त्या स्याद्वादवरनायकं ।
कथां धर्म्मपरीक्षाख्यामभिधास्ये यथागमं ॥ १ ॥
तहू यथा 'विपुल' गिरी' वीरनाथसमवसरणे इंद्रभूर्तिगबिमा बच्चा 25 श्रेणिकाय कथिता etc.
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