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Jaina Literature and Philnsophy
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Extent - 94 folios; 14 lines to a page; 38 letters to a line. Description - Country paper thin, tough and greyish; Jaina Deva.
nagari characters with occasional पृष्ठमात्राs; sufficiently big, quite legible, uniform and good hand-writing borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink; red chalk used; yellow pigment used for making corrections; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin; fol. la decorated with a design in several colours; in the centre of the numbered and unnumbered sides as well, there is some space kept blank so that it forms a pattern; edges of the first fol. slightly gone ; some of the foll. partially worm-eaten; condition on the whole tolerably good%3B
the MS. ends abruptly with a portion of 960th verse. Age-Pretty old. Author - Silasimhagani. Begins — fol. 16
॥६०॥ श्रीपंचपरमेष्टिने नमः ॥ ॐ ध्यात्वा श्रीजिनान् नत्वा वंदित्वा श्रीगुरुक्रमात् श्रीचंद्रराजस्य चरित्रं प्रथयाम्यहं १ पुरा श्रीवर्द्धमानस्य शिष्यः श्रीगौतमो(5)ग्रणीः
एकदा विहरमाथ(प) 'विशाली 'नगरी वसं २ etc. as in No. 764. Ends - abruptly fol. 94b
इत्याचाम्लवर्द्धमानतपो महिम्न्यसो कथाः श्रेणिकाग्रे पुरा यादृक् श्रीवीरस्वामीनो दिता ५९
तादृशी चेटकक्ष्मा N. B. - For further particulars see No. 764
श्रीचन्द्रचरित्र
Śricandracaritra टब्बासहित
with Fabbā
1326 No. 766
1884-87 Size — 114 in. by 5} in. Extent-226 folios ; 6 lines to a page; 34 letters to a line. .
