Descriptive Catalogue Of Manuscripts Vol 19

Author(s): Hiralal Rasikdas Kapadia
Publisher: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute

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The Svetāmbara Works
legible, unifrom and good hand-writing; practically same is the case with the commentary written in columns bounded by one thick line in red ink; except that it is in comparativly smaller hand-writing; borders ruled in three lines and edges in one, in red ink; most of the foll. numbered in both the margins; in the left-hand margins, the title is written as agara; fol. 1a blank; so is the fol. 366a ; edges of the first fol. slightly gone; condition on the whole very good; in the context of the numbered and unnumbered sides of foll. 300 to 365 there is some blank space so that it forms a design ; the text complete upto 10 Ullāsas; the commentary, however, stops with the explanation of the 88th verse of the third Ullāsa; numbers 300 to 366 surrounded by desgins etc. in the right-hand margin; No. 304 written in the body of a horse.
Folios 301-365 have their numbers written in an artistfic way. Out of these, 19 numbers are written in the body of living beings, whereas the rest are circumscribed by floral designs which seem to differ slightly from one anothr. The illustrations of the 19 living beings along with the corres. ponding foliation-nos, are as under :
Crane (326), (338) and (351 ), deer (325), elephant ( 348 ) + lion (3) gentleman (327), horse ( 304 ), (319), (329) and (352), monkey (315), ostrich (306), (350), parrot (361), peacock (358), pigeon (? dove ) (318), stag
(309), tiger (334) and woman ( 341 ).1 Begins (Text) – fol. 16
115 € o ll situazzi TA: 11
eft fafore afas etc. as in No. 645. Begins ( Comm.) – fol. 10
॥श्रीसिद्धार्थसुतं वीरं वर्धमानरमालयं ।
स्मृत्वा कुर्वे वर्द्धमानदेशनाविवृति स्फूटं ॥ देवेंद्रवंदितो देवेंद्रवंदितस्तं जितो मोहो येन स जितमोहस्त्वं एतादृशं
1. See the plate facing this page.