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हंसराज-वत्सराज-कथा
Hamsarāja-vatsarāja-kathā [चमत्कारकथा]
[Camatkārakatha] No. 872
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A 1882-83 Size -103 in. by 4g in. Extent - 14 folios; 22 lines to a page; 55 letters to a line.
Description - Country paper thin, tough and greyish; Jaina Deva
nagari characters; very small, quite legible, uniform and good hand-writing; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink; foll. numbered in both the margins; some of them in left-hand margins; the title is written as हंस. बच्छराज चरित्र; हंस० वच्छरा. चरित्रं etc. edges of a few foll. gone; condition on the whole good; complete ; five vibrāmas in all; the extent of each of them is as under :Viśrāma I ___foll. 1a to 20
2b to 30
36 to 70 IV
7a to 96 90 to 145
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Age-old. Author - Rajakirti, pupil of Ramalabha Gani. Subject — Story of Hamsarāja and that of Vatsarāja in Sanskrit prose. Begins – fol. 1a ॥
श्रीपार्श्वनाथाय नमः। स्मृत्वा श्रीभारती देवीं । नत्वा च शिरसा गुरून् । चमत्कारकरी का । गद्यबंधेन करोम्यहं ॥१॥ श्रीपंचपरमेष्टिनमस्कारमहात्म्यं भो भव्यलोकाः ।
भादरं कृत्वा श्रूयतां । etc. Ends-fol. 146
सु(शुद्ध व्रतानि पालय( यि )त्वा सम्यक्तया धर्म भाराध्य जिनोदितं अंते अनशनेनाराधनया मृत्वा देवौ जातौ प्रथमदेवलोके । कियनवांतरे तु सिद्धिसौख्यमवाप्सतः॥
