Descriptive Catalogue Of Manuscripts Vol 19

Author(s): Hiralal Rasikdas Kapadia
Publisher: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute

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640] : The Svetāmbora Works वत्सराजकुमारकथानक
Vatsarājakumārakathānaka
1335 No. 640
1887-91 Size-10g in. by4g in. Extent-23-1=22 folios: 15 lines to a page3 42 letters to a line. Description -Country paper; thick, rough, tough and greyish; Jaina
Devanagari characters with frequent पृष्ठमात्राs, big, perfectly legible, uniform and very good hand-writing; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink; red chalk used; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin; in the centre of the numbered and unnumbered sides as well, there is mostly a square space kept blank; yellow pigment used for making corrections; the
fol. 181 missing, otherwise complete; condition very good. Age - Pretty old. Author - Not known. Subject -A story of Vatsarāja in Prakrit. Begins - fol. 2a
तहवि हु गुणेहिं जिटठो होउ इयो वच्छराउ तिनिवो ॥ २० इय जणवायं सोउं एगे तां संतिणा समं मंतं ।
काऊण देवराउ गिन्हइ गयउ रयसंघायं ॥३१ etc. Ends - fol. 23a
दाणाई धम्मस्स वि ता जइ भो इत्तियं फलं जायं तो रुद्धविरइ रुवस्स होइ नणु सन्च पडिवन्न । तो तत्थे व पयत्तो कायब्बो होइ बुद्धिमंतीहिं जिणभणियविहाणेण न अन्नहा मुक्खहेउ ति ॥
इति दानादिधर्मेषु अप्रमत्तस्य दुर्गापदोऽपि सुखपर्यवसान : संपद्यते इत्ये(त्य )र्थसंसूचकं पूर्वजन्मसुराभिधानं ॥
श्रीवत्सराजकुमारकथानकं समाप्तं ।। छ ।।
शुभं भवतु । श्रीः॥ Reference - For a comparison see the following works :
(1) वत्सराजकथा in Prakrit having an extant of 425 slokas.
Is this work same as one noted here? (2)
in Sanskrit by Sarvasundara Sari.