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The Svetāmbara Works
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Reference - For extracts and additional MSS. see Jaina Gurjara
Kavio?
सुमित्रचरित्र
Sumitracaritra (सुमित्रकुमार रास)
[Sumitrakumārarāsa ]
51 No. 849
1877-78 Size -94 in. by 4g in. Extent - 16 folios; 15 lines to a page; 38 letters to a line. Description-Country paper thin, tough and white; Jaina Devanagarl
characters with occasional पृष्ठमात्राs; sufficiently big, quite legible, uniform and good hand-writing; borders ruled in three lines in red ink; danļas written in red ink; red chalk used; foll. numbered in the right-hand marging in the lefthand margin, the title is written as सुमित्र कु. रा. 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%3; fol. 1a blank, so is the fol. 160; condition very good; complete; composed in Samvat
1567 in Gujarati language. Age-Samvat 1653.
Author - Dharmasamudra Gapi, pupil of Vacaka Vivekasangha and
descendant of Jinaharsa Sūri of the Kharatara gaccha.
Subject-Life of Sumitra. Begins - fol. 10 ॥ ए ६०॥
पणमि सुमणावयण तणु करी । पहिलउ पढम जिणंद । जसु पयपंकय पूजतां पूजई परिमाणंद ॥१॥ जगमंडलि जसु निजपइ । योगीसर इकचित्ति ।
सा सारदसंधुणावि करि । विरचिसु सुमित्रचरित्र । २ । etc. Ends — fol. 156
भो भवीयणं इम संभलु । दान तणइ परमाणि ।
इह भवि पर भवि सुख संपजइ । सासय सुख शिवाणि । २८ । -~33 [J. L.P.]
