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Description - Palm-leaf; Devanāgari characters with 1978; bold,
big, beautiful, legible and fat handwriting; most of the leaves worn out; some even half to half; numbers of foll. seem to have been entered twice, once as 1, 2, etc; (vide leaf 168 ); the other set that has survived appears to consist of numbers written in letters as in other palm-leaf MSS; condition rather
unsatisfactory. Age - Old. Author - Not known as no necessary information can be had from this
MS. Its condition is very delicate. So it is not possible to give
the beginning and the end. Subject - Life of Lord Santinātha in Sanskrit.
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शान्तिनाथचरित्र
śāntināthacaritra No. 724
1872-73 Size -10 in. by 47 in. Extent - 121 folios; 15 lines to a page; 45 letters to a line. Description - Country paper tough and white; Devanāgari characters;
small, legible and good hand-writing ; borders ruled in three lines and edges in two, in red ink; red chalk and yellow pigment used; fol. 14 and 1210 blank, edges of the first three foll. as well as those of 93-94 and 120-121 slightly damaged; complete; composed in Samvat 1322; extent 10 cantos in all;
about 5000 verses. Age:- At least not modern. Author - Muni Deva Sūri, successor of Vadideva Sūri. Subject - Life of Lord śāntinātha in Sanskrit poetry. Begins — fol. 10
श्री शांतिनाथाय नमः ॥ श्रीगुरवे नमः ॥ वेश्मरत्ननिशारत्ननभोरत्नपरंपरं pia stafa alfaHETHETATAE etc.
