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1. Namo ar (i) hamtanam 1 [:] Namo sava-sidhānam [:]* Airena2 mahārājena mahāmeghavāhanena 2(a) Ceta 3-rāja
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vamsa-vadhanena
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pasatha-subha- lakhanena caturamta-(rakhana) - guna-upetena Kalimgâdhipatina siri-Khāravelena 10 [11] pamdarasavasani siri-kaḍāra 11 -sariravatā kīḍitā kumārakiḍikā 12 [ ] Tato lekha-rupa 13-ganana-vavahara- 14.vidhisava-vijâvadātena nava-vasāni 16
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vadhamana 23
visāradena yovarajam va sasitam 18.] Sampuna-catuvisati -vaso (so) dān (i) 22 sesayovanâbhivijayo 24 tatiye [12] Kalimgarajavamse 26 purisa-yuge mahārājâbhisecanam 27 pāpunāti 28 [.] +
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
Namo arihamtanam ||Namo siḍhānam|| Namo ayariyāṇam||Ņamo uvajhāyāṇam|| Namo loe savva-sāhūṇam||
*Cf. the Jaina formula of namokkāra or nokāra, the Jaina form of invocation, met with on the first page of a Jaina book and quoted by Rajendra Lala Mitra and Bhagawan Lal Indraji :—
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Cf. Makhadeva-Jataka (Fausböll, No. 9): Atite Videha-ratthe Mithilayam Makhādevo nāma rājā ahosi dhammiko dhammarājā. So caturásīti-vassa-sahassāni kumāra-kīļam tatha oparajjam tathā mahārajjam
katvā.
Cf. Vikrama-Prabandha, verses quoted in the Pattavalis of the Digambaras, edited and translated by Höernle in IA, Vol. XXI, p. 67 :—
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