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सिंहासनबत्तीसी
Simhāsanabattisi
1496 No. 819
1887-91 Size - 103 in. by 4g in. Extent -- 47 folios; 18 lines to a page; 45 letters to a line. Description - Country paper thick, tough and white; Devanāgari
characters, small, thick, legible and good handwriting, borders ruled in three lines and edges in one, in red ink ; red chalk and yellow pigment used; fol. 1a blank; fol. 2nd slightly torn; fol. 470 practically complete; borders of the 1st fol.
coloured bluish. Composed in 1678 in Gujarati poetry. Age - Samvat 1772. Author - Samghavijaya. Subject - Stories narrated through the medium of each of the 32 dolls
of the Lion-throne of Vikramāditya in the court of king
Bhoja ; Gujarati version. Begins-fol. 1b
सकल मंगल धर्म धुरि दान दया सत्यमेव । नमो निरंतर जगगूरू अनंतचोविसी देव । १॥ etc. दंड पंच जिणें वसि कीया धरिमो मस्तकछन्न ।
सिंघासण इंद्रि मोकलिभो बत्रीस पूतलीयुत ॥ ३८ ॥ etc. Ends-fol. 11b
इति सिंघासणबत्रीसी त्रीजी पूतलीकथा समाता । Ends-fol. 47a
पुण्यबंध सुणतां हुवे भणतां हुइ सुजाण । जयश्री वंछित सुष लहे लहे नर कोटिकल्याण 1 ८१॥
इति सिंघासणबत्रीसी श्रीविक्रमार्कगुणकीर्तिलताद्वात्रिंशतिपंचालिकाकथा सुषबोधचोपइ द्वात्रिंशत्पूतलीकथा समाप्ता।
___सं. १७७२(?) कार्तिक शु० ७ रवौ लिषतं । Reference - For comparison the following works may be consulted :. सिंहासनबत्रीसी composed by pupil of Jayasagara in V.S. 1616.
by Hirakalasa, V.S. 1636.
by Samgha vijaya -28 [J.LP,
