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The Svetambara Works
Description - Country paper thin, rough and greyish; Devanagari characters with occasional पृष्ठमात्राs; bold, big, legible and good hand-writing; borders ruled in three lines in red ink; foll. 1a to 25b blank ; edges of the first two folios slightly damaged; yellow pigment used; complete; 685 Sanskrit
verses in all.
Subject Life of Sthulabhadra well-known for his strength of character and chastity.
Age – Not quite modern.
Author
Jayananda Sūri, pupil of Somatilaka Suri of the Tapā gaccha.
Begins - fol. 16
वीरो वर्यश्रिये वोऽस्तु जिनेंद्रो जगदर्धिनतः । रागादिरोधको विश्वबोधको बुद्धविष्टपः ॥ १ ॥ श्रीवीरशासनां भोजभासनैकनभोमणेः । स्थूलभद्रमुनींद्रस्य चरित्रं किमपि ब्रुवे ॥ २ ॥ etc.
279
Ends - fol. 250
एवं श्रीस्थूलभद्रप्रवरमुनिपतेः पुण्यलावण्यमूर्तेः । सर्पस्कंदर्प ... रप्रकटपटुजयप्राप्तसुप्राज्यकीर्तेः । एतच्चित्रं चरित्रं कृतसुकृतिजन श्रीजयानंदसिद्धिं । शश्वद्भम्यत्रजानां प्रथयतु परमां शुद्धशीलप्रवृद्धिं ।। ६८५ ॥ इति श्रीस्थूलभद्रचरित्रं समाप्तम् ॥
Reference — Published by Hiralal Hansaraj, Jamnagar, 1910. Also published in the D. L. P. F. Series, no 25 in A. D. 1915. For quotations see Peterson Reports V. p. 216. For an additional MS. with different opening lines see B. B. R. A. S. Vols. III. IV. p. 453. In Jinaratnakosa ( Vol. I, p. 455 ) other MSS. are mentioned.
स्थूलभद्रचरित्र
No. 867
Size - 10 in. by 4g in.
Sthulabhadracaritra
653 1884-86
