Book Title: Descriptive Catalogue Of Manuscripts Vol 19
Author(s): Hiralal Rasikdas Kapadia
Publisher: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute
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The Svetāmbara Works
149
Ends - fol. 240
श्रुत्वेति स्मृतिमाप्य सत्य । मेतद् वदंतीति चिरं मुदा श्री। धर्म विधायारसनकुमार । स्वर्ग ततः सेत्स्यति सा 'विदेहे ॥७॥
gta sf1927 11 3 11 Reference - It seems that this work is not mentioned in Jinaratnakosa
(Vol. I).
श्रीचन्द्रचरित्र
Śricandracaritra
856 No. 763
1892-95 Size -91 in. by 43 in. Extent — 114 folios ; 13 lines to a page ; 38 letters to a line. Description - Country paper thick, tough and white; Jaina Devanāgari
characters with occasional TEATS; big, quite legible, fairly uniform and tolerably good hand-writing; borders ruled in in black ink; red chalk used; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin; yellow pigment used for making corrections; in the centre of the numbered and unnumbered sides as well, there is some space kept blank so that it forms a design; edges of the last fol. gone; fol. 1st missing; so the work begins abruptly; it, however, goes up to the end; composed in V. S.
1494. in 4 Adhyāyas. Age - Samvat 1662. Author - Silasimha Gaņi Guru of silahamsa and pupil of Jayānanda
Sūri.
Subject - Life of Sricandra. In his former birth he had practised a
penance named as . Vardhamāna Țapas'. This work is based 1 upon Siricandacariya composed by Siddharşi in V.S.(?) 598.
He attained omniscience and Nirvana.
