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8431
The Svetāmbara TVorks
251
Extent — 167 folios; 12 lines to a page; 35 letters to a line. Description-Country paper thin, tough and greyish; Jaina Deva
nagari characters with occasional पृष्ठमात्रा; big, quite legible, uniform and very good hand-writing ; borders ruled in three lines and edges in one, in red ink; foll., dandas written in red ink; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin; strips of white paper pasted to fol. 1a and 10; a few foll. slightly torn; condition on the whole good; complete; the total
extent 4500 Slokas; corrected by Samayamanikya. Age-Samvat 1840. Author -Devendra Suri, pupil of Jagaccandra Suri. Subject - Story of Sudarsana in Prakrit. For comparison the follow.
ing works may be consulted :सुदर्शन(मुनि)चरित्र by ब्रह्मनेमिदत्त " चरित्र ., सकलकीर्ति
, विद्यानन्द
, विश्वभूषण (अपभ्रंश), नयनन्दिन
Begins-fol. 16 ॥६०॥
ॐ नमः ॥ श्रीसुव्रतजिनेंद्राय ॥ वंदितु... जिणं । सुदरिसणा ए पुरंमिलरुयच्छ । जह ... लिया विहारो । कराविउ किंपि तह वुत्थं (च्छं)।१। जह तीइ पढमजम्मे विजयाखयरी इमा ... उमप्पो
जहमासंति जिणगिहे पूयं ददलु पुलइयेगा। २ । etc. Ends - fol. 1676
तप्पयभत्ता जगचंदसूरिणो तसिं दुन्नि वर सीसा । सिरिंदोवंदमुणींदो तहा विजयचंदसूरिवरो । ५१ । इय सुदरिसणाइ कहां नाण तवच्चरणकारणं परमं मूलकहानुहुमच्छा लिहिया देविंदसूरीहिं । ५२ । परसस्था बहुरयणा दोगग्वहरा सुवबलंकारा। सुनिहि ब्व कहांग सानंदउ विवुह स्सिया सुइरे । ४०५५॥ ग्रंथाग्रंथ १५००॥
