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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
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Begins - fol. 153a
नमो वीतरागाय अतित्थ भरहवासंमि नयरं नयराण उत्तम, हस्तिसीसंतु नामेणं वणवा समाउलं, तेस्सहस्त्राण भागेमि
उद्याणं समणीरह, पुयत्करंडगनामे सोचाउ गहुममंडियं ॥ २ ॥ Ends - fol. 175a
नगरंमि व उसत्तपुरे क्षुल्लकरंडतु तत्थ उद्याणं तंमिय मुहम्मज्ञाक्खा रायाय वणा वाहानाम । देवीसरम्महत्ताण पुत्र उसहनंदिवरकुमारा। सिरिदेवीया मुक्को पंच सउत्सम्म उवरोहो ॥ सो विजवा दुजणह ॥ ४ ॥ जहयसुवाहृताहेव सम्ववु नवरं महाविदेहे पुन्वभवे पुंडरगिणीए । विजउनाम कुमारो तेणेय रिलाहि उनि तित्थयरो । जगबाहुनामेण । तत्तोपतिद्वसद्वा ए । भदाणयभावेणं सव्व जाणे धजहसुबाहुम्मादिय लोया मणुयत्तं सव्वहं जावमोक्खाति ॥ सुबाहुचरियं समत्तं गाथाररू जाता श्लोक २७६ ॥ छ । छ।
सुबाहुचरित्र
Subāhucaritra [सुबाहुसंन्धि]
[Subahusandhi]
1671 No. 847
1891-95 Size 10 in. by 44 in. Extent - 4 folios; 13 lines to a page; 42 letters to a line. Description-Country paper thin, brittle and greyish; Jaina
Devanagari characters with occasional पृष्ठमात्राs; big, quite legible, uniform and good hand-writing; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink; all the edges of almost every fol. coloured red; foll. numbered in the right-hand marging in the centre of the numbered and unnumbered sides as well there is some space kept blank so that it forms a design ; yellow pigment used for making corrections; strips of paper pasted to some foll; edges of one or two foll. partly gone; condition on the whole tolerably good; complete; 89 verses in Gujarati, composed in 1604 at the instance of Jinamanikya Suri at Jesalmer.
Age - Not modern.