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गौरी मंगलशालिभद्रचरिता सर्वप्रियं भावुका । जीयाद् धर्मकुमारपंडितमतिविस्तारिधर्मोन्नतिः ॥ १५८ ॥ इति श्री. 'सर्वार्थसिद्धि 'संप्राप्तिवर्णनो नाम सप्तमः प्रस्तावः ॥ जिनातिशयशि(यः)क्षा(१३३४)ख्यवत्सरे विहिता कथा ।
ग्रंथेन द्वादशशती चतुर्विंशतिसंयुता ॥ १५९ ॥ Reference - Published in the Yaśovijaya Jaina Granthamālā, Bhav.
nagar. For quotations see Peterson, Reports III. p. 174 ff. For a digest of the story with valuable appendices by M. Bloomfield, consult J. A.0. S. vol. 43, p. 257 ff. For additional MS. see
B. B. R. A. S. (Vols. III. IV. p. 449) and Jinaratnakota (Vol. I, p. 382).
शालिभद्रचरित्र
Sālibhadracaritra
380 No. 744
1871-72 Size - 10F in. by 4g in. Extent - 21 folios; 17 lines to a page; 50 letters to a line. Description - Country paper very thin, tough and white; Jaina Deva.
nagari characters with frequent पृष्ठमात्राs; small, quite legible, uniform and very good hand-writing; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink; numbers for the verses and their dandas written in red ink; yellow pigment used for making corrections%3; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin; in the centre of the numbered and un numbered sides as well, then in some place kept blank so as to form a design; some of the foll. slightly worm-eaten; edges of the last foll. gone%3B
condition on the whole tolerably good ; complete. Age - Pretty old. Age-Dharmakumāra. Begins - fol. 1a
॥६०॥ नमो वीतरागाय ।। श्रीदानधर्मकल्पद्रु etc. as in No. 743,
