Mahavira Jain Vidyalay Suvarna Mahotsav Granth Part 1

Author(s): Mahavir Jain Vidyalaya Mumbai
Publisher: Mahavir Jain Vidyalay

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378 : SHRI MAHAVIRA JAINA VIDYALAYA GOLDEN JUBILEE VOLUME
whole Satruñjaya Māhātmya composed by Dhaneśvarasūri is available in this Manuscript.
Folio 153 A: Bharata looking into a mirror and obtaining Highest Knowledge..
The above title is suggested by an inscription in the margin which reads :--37 STREET H IT!
Divided into two panels, the lower panel shows a big mirror placed on ground in front of which stands Bharata Cakravartin (Bharata, the World Conqueror) fully dressed after his bath, looking in the mirror. After finding the ring loose on his finger, he thinks of old age and of the evanescence of life and its pleasures.
The upper panel seems to represent Bharata offering his prayers to the Lord. Behind him stand his two queens. This may possibly represent a scene after he decided to become a monk. Red background.
Note the superficial use of gold and mica used for white in certain cases. Mica is also used in the śāntinātha Caritra manuscript dated 1453 V. S. (= 1396 A. D.)
In the left margin of this is a small figure seated on a big lotus. He appears like Puņďarika the chief ganadhara of Ķişabha, or the figure may also represent the monk Bharata after he had attained Kevalajñāna. Size : 7x11 cm.
(Colour plate I, Fig. II)
Sāntinātha Caritra dated 1453 V. S. (= 1396 A. D. from collections of the L. D. Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad (No. Sagara, 285). Size : 26.4 x 11.2 cm.
Total folios : 156 The work was composed by Ajitaprabhasūri, pupil of Viraprabha who was the pupil of Tilakaprabhasūri, in V. S. 1307 (= 1250 A. D.), probably at Candrāvati near Abu, according to Praśasti verses at the end.
Colophon : Later in different writing and light black ink is written-FT 8863 QAT HTÀ I igrut faettaat ua O XXXXX ya xxxहराज डाढा समस्त कटुंब युतेन श्री सिद्धान्ती गच्छे श्री नाणचन्द्रसूरि तत्पट्टे अजित उपदेशेन श्री शांतिनाथचरित्रं लिखार्पिती । ग्रंथागं० ४९११ ॥
In the Samvat year 1453, on the fifth day of the bright fortnight of the month Vaišākha was written śri-śāntinatha-Caritra.......
The folios have a big red circle in either margin and a third in