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इति श्रीमंध्यरस्वांमनी तवनषत्रीसी संपूर्णः ॥ ११ ॥ Reference – For extracts and additional MSS, see Jaina Gurjara
Καυίο,
सीमन्धरजिनस्तवन
Simandharajinastanavana (सीमन्धरस्वामीवीनति)
(Simandharasvāmīvinati बालावबोधसह
with Bālāvabodha
730 No.832
1899-1915 Size -108 in. by4g in. Extent - 25 folios; 4 lines to a page; 28 letters to a line. Description - Country paper thick, tough and white; Jaina Deva
nāgari characters with rare TATATS; this MS. contains the text and the interlinear Bālāvabodha; the former written in very big, quite legible, uniform and very good hand-writing: same is the case with the latter except that it is written in smaller hand-writing; borders ruled in three lines and edges in two, in red ink; red chalk profusely used; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin; fol. 1a blank; so is the fol. 25b3; edges of a few foll. slightly gone; the text complete; 125 verses in all and 11 dhālas; Balāvabodha ends on fol. 2343;
so incomplete? Age-Samvat 1777. Author of the text - Nyāyaviśārada Nyāyācārya Yašovijaya Gaại. For
his life and works see Yaśodobana. Author of the Bālāvabodha - Same (?) as above. Subject - A request to Simandharasvāmin. For details see Yasodohana. Begins ( Text) - fol. 10 ए ६० ॥
स्वामि सीमंधर वीनती ॥ सांभलो माहरी देवरे । ताहरी आण हुँ सिर धरूं आदरं ताहरी सेवरे ॥१॥ कुगुरुना वासना पांसमां । हरिणं परि जे प(पा)म्या स्वामी० लोकरे । तेहनें शरण तुझ विण नहीं ॥ टलवले बापड़ा फोकरे ॥ २ ॥ etc.
