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tanfasat जैनविहारशतकम् सं. नगीन जी. शाह
In the pages that follow a small work entitled Jainavibarağataka bas been edited on the basis of the ms. belonging to the Muni Punyavijaya Collection preserved in the L, D. Lastitute of Indology, Ahmedabad. The ms, bears the serial No. 1969. Its size is 26 cms, x ll cms. It has fivc folios. Each sido of the folio has 17 lines and each line has 58 letters. The script is legible. The condition of the ms, is good. It belongs to c, 1550 A. D. It does not contain the normal colophon which always occurs at the end of the ms, The name of the author is not given anywhere in the ms. Only the title of the work occurs at the end of the ms, This is the o Ey ms. of the present work, that I have come across. The ms. seems to have been written by the author himself, In the ms. many quarters and phrases have been rejected by putting yellow paint on them-Dot because they are grammati. cally Incorrect or otherwise corrupt but because more poetical and better chiselled quarters and phrases have occurred to the mind of the composer, And he has given these newly found quarters and phrases in the margin, The script of these quarters and phrases given in the margin resembles that of the usual writing of the text.
The subject-matter of this short poem is the Jalna temple in general. The poet displays his luxuriant rhetorical skill in describing it. So, the poem has become highly ornate. The poet refers to small caityas and says that with these caityas around the main temple looks like a fully blown golden lotus having a hundred petals. He mentions candrašala and rangašala and other architectural details. His description of falabhanjikas carved at the ends of torana is very interesting. He has composed all the verses (102) in sragdhara metre.
