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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
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Extent - 8 folios; 16 lines to a paye; 42 letters to a line.
Description-Country paper thin, tough and white; Jaina Devanagari
characters; small, quite legible, fairly uniform and good handwriting; borders ruled in four lines in black ink; red chalk used; 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 ; yellow pigment used for making corrections ; condition very good; complete.
Age - Samvat 1608. Author - Bhavaka, pupil of Gunamanikya of the Brahmana gaccha. Subject - Story of Hariscandra (Haricanda ) in Gujarati poetry. Begins -- fol. 14 ॥ॐ॥
सरसति सामिणि वीनवू । त्रिभोवनजननी माय । रचउं प्रबंध हरिचंद तणउ । वाणी तह्म पसाय ॥ १ कृपा करु मझ स्वामिनी । वंछितदायक देवि । एक मनु नितउ लगू । सदा करूं तझ सेव ॥२ etc.
Ends - fol. 86
एह प्रबंध श्रवणि श्रुणि । भणसि जे नरनारि । तेह धरि नव निधि । अंगणि पामि सुष संसारि ॥ ६९ ......हरिचंदराजा चुउपई प्रबंध सपूर्ण ॥ संवत् १६०८ वर्षे पोस सुदि ८ सोमे ॥ चेलीसिधा लष्यतु । श्रीसारदाइ नमः॥श्रीः॥ श्रीः ।। Then in a different hand we have :
माटी अदरि परी नीपनी। बिजरंग आगासी। तीन पुरष सुवि लूधी । अछह लोक जाणइ 'मस 'वासी । जमण जिमह नीर आहारइ। चलूनलीइ आ दिट्टी।
महउ पूछण कपडा दीता। आपइ नी गलकरि बइ अट्टी ॥२॥ दोति ।। Reference - For extracts and additional MSS. see Jaina Gurjara
Kavio (Vol. I, pp. 171-172 and Vol. III, pt. 1, pp. 633-634.
