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INTRODUOTTOK,
पिसबबस पुबाया मात्रा नलीसा । वखार पुनो गोप्ता चन्दना चन्दनोपमा ।। धनी वदपरा भार्गवसताधिका। तस्याः पुत्रो मुझे बेला विद्यते च यशोमतो।। बायोचूनौतिनाम्न्यो ते सपा मुख्यतये । प्रतिमिमा पवित्रा खियामसतुर्मुदा ।।. तमोगवनभोमार्मप्रकाशनविक्वता । विजयानंदसरोणं शिवस्य गुणशालिनः ॥ ७॥ प्रवर्वकपदस्यस्य श्रीवातिविषयस्य लि। प्रतिरिवं मुदा ताभ्यां पठनाव समर्पिता ।। भूरसनंदचंद्राब्दे नभोमासे सिते दले रम्थे । विजयकमलरोण राज्ये प्राज्ये लिखितेयं ।। पार्ग ।
शुभं भूयात् MSS. C. and E. belong to the Deccan College Library, 800 Peterson, 6th Report, No. 888, and oth Report, No. 82. MSS. A, B, and D were lent me by the late Vijayadharmasuri, and r. by Kantivijaya. ___It will be seen that none of these MSS. is really old. Even the Tippant of Mativardhana' is quite modern ; for the author, according to the above colophon, is fourth in descont from Jinasankhya .Sūri who was head of the Bharatara Gaocha, Samvat_1730-1780-1883-1724 A.D., and, therefore, must have lived in the later part of the 18th century A.D. Tho verse (Šardūlavikridita) at the end of D states that the Manuscript (grantha) was caused to be written by Dharmaratna in Samvat 1639 = 1583 A.D. But this verse is apparently copied from the original of D, and not composed by the scribe of D; for the author of the verse would no doubt have written it correctly and without the senseless corruption in the second line. I am almost enre that the vere does not refer to the MS. of athe Samonraicca Kaha; for grantha usually denotes a work and not a manuscript. Dharmarátna composed a Samaradityacari.
This is the form of the name given in the Jainagranthavall; Pour. son has sumativatdhana; Suramation given above is apparently wrong
