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The Svetāmbara Worke
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सिंहासनबत्तीसी
Simhāsanabattisi No. 821
857
1895-1902 Size -10g in. by 41 in. Extent - 118-1-1-1 -115 folios; 9 to 12 lines to a page; 36 to 40
Jetters to a line.
Description-Country paper thin and white; Devanagari characters%3;
___ bold, big, clear and good hand.writing%3; borders ruled in
three lines and edges in two, in red ink; red chalk used; white paste too%; several foll. worm-eaten; foll. 1-24 numbered twice as usual; fol. 35th falsely numbered as 36th; hence the following numbered as 37, 38 etc; fol. 65th also numbered as 66th ; so the succeeding as 67, 68, etc; fol. 110th also numbered as 111th; hence the following numbered as
112, 113 etc.; complete; composed in Samvat 1624. Age - Not quite modern. Subject - 32 stories narrated through the medium of the each of the
32 dolls in the throne of Vikrama in the court of king Bhoja%B
Gujrati version. Author-Hirakalasa, pupil of Harsaprabha of the Kharataragaccha.
He has composed Samyaktvakaumudi-rāsa.
Begins-fol. 1a
भाराही श्रीऋषभ प्रभु युगलीधर्म निवार ।
कथा कहुं विक्रम तंणी जसु साको विस्तार ॥ १॥ etc. Ends-fol. 1180
स्वामोदलीहुँ सथ सइमुख मान बोडीयो भापणे जि सास्त्र साथइहे विमिलितो तेहनि रती। थांपणो ए चरित सांभल जिय मानव दान । भापइ निज कर ते पुण्यपसायै मुषीय थायै रिद्वि पामै बहु परई ।
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