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The Digambara Works
तच्छिष्यश्रुतसागरेण रचिता संक्षेपतः सत्कथा रोहिन्या श्रवनामृतं भवतु वस्तापार्दये संततं ९६ इति श्रीसूरिश्रीश्रुतसागरविरचिता असोकरोहिनीकथा समाप्ताः
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Astāhnikakathā
अष्टाह्निककथा No. 902
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1898-99
Size - 121 io. by 8} in. Extent - 5 folios; 13 lines to a page: 45 letters to a line. Description - Country paper thick, tough and white; Jaina Devanāgari
characters; sufficiently big, quite legible, uniform and beauti. ful hand-writing: borders ruled in three lines and edges in one, in red ink;dandas for the verses etc. written in red ink; foll. numbered in both the margins; fol. 1a blank except that on the following line is written in the centre : अष्टाहिककथा संस्कृत; condition very good; 9 mantras given on fol. 54; com. plete; the title of this work is written in the left-hand margin as अष्टाहिका० अष्टाह्निक and अष्टाहिकाकथा.
Age - Samvat 1953. Author - Surendrakirti. Subject - Siddhacakra narrative relating to Astāhnika Vrata. Begins-fol. 10
॥ ॐ नमः सिद्धेभ्यः॥ श्रीमंतं वर्द्धमानेशं नत्वा कुर्वे समासतः रूजुशब्दैः सिद्धचक्रं कथां बालावबोधये । १ । अथेह जंबूद्वीपे सन्मेरोदक्षिणदिक्नटे भरते(5)थार्यखंडे(s)स्त्ययोध्याख्या नगरी शुभा ।। तत्रेक्ष्वाकुकुलोत्तंसो हरिषेणाभिधानकः समुद्भूतो महाराजा सम्यग्दृष्टिशिरोमणेः । ३ । etc.
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