________________
1873]
The Svetămbara Works
285
इति श्रीहंसराजवच्छराजकथायां गद्यबंधे राज्यादिवर्णनो नाम पंचमो विश्रामः ॥ ५॥ वाचनाचार्य - श्रीरत्नलाभगणिशिष्येण ।। वी. राजकीर्तिना अयं गद्यबंधप्रयासो विहितः । यदस्मिन् विषये असुद्ध भवति । तत्विद्भिः संसोध्य । श्री' खरतर 'गच्छे वा० रत्नलाभशिष्येण कृतः प्रयासो(5)यं ॥ वा. राजकीर्तिगणि पं० गुणनिधानभ्रातृलक्ष्मीरत्नलिपी
कृता । Reference - In Jinaratnakosa (Vol. I, p. 458) this Ms. and Jaina
Granthāvali (p. 237 ) are noted
52
हंसराज-वत्सराजकथा
Hamsarāja-Vatsarāja-kathā No. 873
1877-78 Size -93 in. by 41 in. Extent-23 folios%3; 13 lines to a page; 35 letters to a line. Description-Country paper thin, rough, tough and white; Jaina Deva
nagari characters with rare पृष्ठमात्राs; small, fairly legible and tolerably good hand-writing;'borders ruled in two pairs of lines in red ink; foll, numbered in both the margins; in the mar. gin to the left, the title is written as हंसावलीना चुपई ०; in the cen. tre of the numbered and unnumbered sides as well, there is some place kept blank so that it forms a design; fol. 1a blank; every fol. is slightly worm-eaten; edges of the first fol. partially gone; condition on the whole tolerably good; complete; 4 khaņdas in all; composed in c. 1513; at the end of
every khanda the word - Asaita' occurs. Age - Samvat 1659. Author - Āsāyata. Subject - Story of Hamsarāja and that of Vatsarāja in Gujarati
___verse. Begin -fol. 10॥ॐ॥
ॐ नमः श्रीसरस्वत्यै नमः॥ भमरावई संमाण ॥ प्रत्यक्षप्रमाणं ॥ अवरनयराणं ॥ पुर' पट्टणपयठाणं' ॥ भयठाणं वीरबावनया ॥१॥
bat it formes as well, th
is slightlu