Descriptive Catalogue of Govt Collections of Manuscripts Part 3

Author(s): Hiralal R Kapadia
Publisher: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute

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भरतेश्वर बाहुबलिस्वाध्याय कथाकोशसहित
No. 892
Jaina Literature and Philosophy
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Size. 93 in. by 4 in.
Extent. 347+5=352 folios; 13 lines to a page; 35 letters to a
Bharatesvara-Bahubalisvādhyāya with Kathakośa
Description. Country paper rough, tough and white, Jaina Devanagari characters; sufficiently big, legible and tolerably good hand-writing; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink; red chalk used; yellow pigment also; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin only; six foll. numbered as 172; the sixth 172a practically blank; only half a line is written on it; fol. 1 blank; edges of the first fol. slightly damaged; a careless attempt to separate the 68th and 69th foll. which must have stuck together owing to the presence of gum, has led to their tearing and thus damaging the Ms. ; similar is the case with foll. 121 and 122; condition on the whole good; the text complete so far as the 1st verse is concerned; fagar is complete; the narrative that follows viz. that of Śrimati not complete; so Kathakośa thus ends abruptly, and that there is no colophon. Age.- Pretty old.
Begins.
-- ( com. ) fol. ht० ॥ श्रीसारदायै नमः ॥
gara etc. as in No. 888.
Ends. (com.) fol. 347b
[892.
(text) fol. rb
भरहेसर बाहुबली etc. up to नागदत्तो य ॥ १ ॥ इत्यादि १३ गाथा ||
308.
A. 1882-83.
दृष्ट्वा
ततस्तस्या श्रीमत्या एतत्कृत्वा जातिस्मृतिरभूत्पश्चाद्भवं विशेषतस्तया तपश्र्चक्रे । उद्यापनमपि कृतं । इति तपः कृत्वा तस्मिन्नेव भवे (This Ms. ends thus abruptly).
N. B. For further particulars see No. 888.