Mahavira Jain Vidyalay Suvarna Mahotsav Granth Part 1

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

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386 : SHRI MAHAVIRA JAINA VIDYALAYA GOLDEN JUBILEE VOLUME
Folio 24 B: Vikramaditya fighting with the army of Kāmasena to win over the latter's daughter for Madhava.
Vikramāditya is attacking the city of king Kāmasena. The scene shows two bearded warriors on either side, fighting with swords and shields. Red background. Size : 20 x 8 cm. approx.
(Fig. 11)
Candraprabha-Caritra composed by Devendra Sūri dated 1555 V. S. ( = 1498 A.D.), at Patan, from collections of the L. D. Institute of Indology, (Nagarsheth No. 21. 36). . Size of Manuscript : 30 x 10.2 cm.
Totol folios : 198 Colophon : The end reads--a: Tall 888x ma fan and then added in margin in smaller handwriting : TT #Sytsaaria afa कृतम् ॥ छ । २१६१ सर्वसंख्या ५३२५ ॥ छ । सं० १५५५ वैशाष वदि ४ सोमे लषितं ॥ श्रीपत्तने
Ci 11 It means that this Carita work was composed in Someśvarapura in V.S. 1264 = 1207 A. D. the copying of this manuscript was completed on Monday, the fourth day of the dark half of Vaišākha in the Saṁvat year 1555 (= 1498 A. D.), in the city Śrī-Pattana (Patan).
Then in red ink in the margin-साह श्री वच्छा सुत साह सहस्रकिरणेन पुस्तकमिदं गृहीतं सुत सा० वर्द्धमान शान्तिदास परिपालनार्थ. This is a later entry in different hand. Three red dots, two in margins and one in centre, in each page. Thick red border lines with black thin lines typical of the age (c. 1500 A, D.). Obviously it seems that this last line on folio 198b was copied from folio 199a (now lost, but could have existed once) which might have been torn or ruined.
The Satruñjaya Māhātmya and this work are copied on the same size of papers and the style of writing is almost similar.
Folio 126 B: Marriage of Candraprabha.
A well-decorated marriage pavilion supported by pillars, to the right and left of which stand two Brāhmaṇas and two women. The bride and bridegroom stand in the centre of the mandapa surmounted by two peacocks and two plaintain trees. Red background. The lowermost panel has a row of hamsas.
Mica is used to show the whiteness of the body of Candraprabha. Note the beautiful patterns on the skirt and the dhotī. Colours used are green, black, mica, red. Size : 7.4 x 10.4 approx.
(Colour plate II, Fig. IV)
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