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Description - Country paper somewhat thick, rough, tough and white;
Jajna Devapāgari characters; sufficiently big, quite legible and tolerably fair hand-writing; borders indifferently ruled in three lines in black ink; red chalk used; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin ; in the centre of the numbered and un. numbered sides as well, there is some space kept blank so that it forms a design%3; fol. 8b blank; some of the foll. slightly worm-eaten; some have their edges partly gone; condition on the whole tolerably good; complete; composed in Samvat
1567 in Trambavati (Cambay). Age-Pretty old. Author-Lavanyasamaya, pupil of Samayaratna, and descendant of
Somasundara Sūri of the Tapā gaccha. Subject - Life of Surapriya who attained omniscience. Begins-fol. 10॥६ ॥
दूहा ॥ 'राजगृह ' रुलीभामणु । 'मुगध ' देसि सिणगार। पुहता स्वामी वीर जिण । श्रेणीक हरष अपार ॥१॥ रूप कणय मणि के रमु । त्रिण गढ देव रचंति ।
चिहुं दसि छन सोहामणां । सिंघासण झलकति। (२) etc. Ends -fol. 8a
संवत पनरस तसठह (१५६७)। भासो सुदि रविवार । रचिउ चरिउ चि(च)रित्रि सोहामj । 'नंबावती' मज्झारि ॥ ९९ ॥ श्रीर्थभणसुपसाउ लइ । रास रचिउ मनरंगि । 'दूहा' बंधई बांधीउ । उलट आणी अंगि । १००। 'तप 'गच्छ गुरु गोयमसमु । सोमसू(सुंदरि(र)सूरिराय । समयरतन सुहगुरजयु । प्रणमी तेहना पाय । १०१। काई कविति केलवण । कांई सासमविचार । गायु सुरप्रिय केवली । गुरुसरसति आधारि । १०२ । इति सुरप्रीयरास समाप्तः ॥ ऋषिसूरवर्द्धनलिषितं ।
श्री गुडी' पार्श्वनाथाय नमः। Reference For extracts and additional MS. see Jaina Gurjura
Kavio (Vol. I, pp.75-76).
