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Jaina Literature and Philosophy हरिवाहनकथा
Harivāhanakathā
1385 No. 880
1886-92 Size - 101 in. by 4g in. Extent - 5 folios ; 20 lines to a page ; 52 letters to a line.
Description - Country paper thin, tough and greyish ; Jaina Deva.
nāgari characters; small, perfectly legible, uniform and very good hand-writing; borders ruled in three lines and edges in two lines, in red ink; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin; in the centre of the numbered and unnumbered sides as well, there is some space kept blank so that it forms a design; red chalk used; fol. 50 blank; edges of each and every fol. slightly gone; condition on the whole good; yellow pigment used for making corrections ; complete.
Age — Pretty old.
Subject-Story of Harivahana, son of king Mahisena. Told in Sans
krit prose. His mother's name is Moniprabha. He took dikşā and was born in Sarvārtbasiddhi.
Begins-fol. 10॥ॐ॥
धर्मप्रभावजंतूनां । जायते सुखमुत्तमं । प्राप्तं नरेंद्रपुत्रेण । हरिवाहननामति (?)॥ १
दृष्टांतमाह ॥ इहैव 'भरत'क्षेत्रे । 'भोगावती'नगरी महीसेनो राजा राज्यं करोति । मणिप्रभा राज्ञी । प्राणवल्लभास्तयो हरिवाहन नाम कुमारो
द्वात्रिंशलक्षणे लक्ष्यतो(s)स्ति etc. Ends -fol. 5a
___ गुरो गिरामिति श्रुत्वा विमलवाहननामानं सुतं राज्ये निवेश्य भार्यायुक्तो द(दी)क्षामगीचकार धनंजयो(5)पि तथैव दीक्षामयाचित केवल्याह अद्यापि तव भोगफलमस्ति इति श्रु( ? त्वा )हरिवाहनराजर्षि क्षामयित्वा विमलवाहनराजानं लात्वानगमध्ये जगाम अथ तस्य राजऋषिन नवप्रहराऽनंतरं मस्तके वेदनीय समुत्पन्ना सा दुस्सहा केवलिना भाराधना जीवरासिक्षामणं कारितं
जम्मं दुक्खं जरा दुक्खं रोगाणि मरणाणि य । महो दु(क)खोघसंसारे जत्थ कीसंति जंतुणो। १।
