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118
Jaina Literature and Philosophy
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कथाकोश
Kathākosa No. 90
1266.
1884-87. Size.- 10g in. by 4g in. Extent.-- 47 folios ; 13 to 5 lines to a page ; 42 to 58 letters to
. a line. Description.- Country paper rough and greyish; Devanagari
characters with TATAIS; big, legible and good hand-writing; borders ruled in four lines in black ink ; foll. numbered as usual ; fol. 1a blank; red chalk used ; incomplete as it ends abruptly; foll. 35-47 written in a smaller hand-writing; the last katha which is completely dealt with,
in this Ms., is that of Jimútavāhana; condition very good. Age.- Fairly old.
Author.- Unknown. . Is Subject. -- Narratives, one of them being that of Jimūtavāhana. Begins.-- fol. 10 ए६० ॥ 3 ॥ नमः श्रीचद्रप्रभस्वामिने ॥
दृष्टो(5)पि हृष्टजनलोचनचंद्रकांत
मश्रांतीतरजलाविलमादधानः । चंद्रप्रभो जयति चंद्र इवेशमित्रं ।
चित्र पुनः शुभशताय यदष्टमो(5)पि ॥१॥ क्षेत्रे(s)खिले 'भरत'नामनि बोधिबीज
वापाय यः किल पुरा(55)दिधुरामुवाह । अंसस्थला स्थितिरसौ किणकालिमेव
... केशावलिविजयतां वृषभस्थ तस्य ॥२॥ etc. 25 Ends.-- fol. 470
पितृभ्यां प्रेषितो हर्षात स्वराज्यस्योविधीर्षया ।
स प्राप 'कांचनपुर व्योम्नेव दयिता सखा ॥१५॥ जीमूतवाहनकथा समाप्ता ।। छ । ग्रं० ११४
इति बोद्ध वचः श्रुत्वा राजा श्रीमानजासुतः। जहर्ष यत् प्रहृष्यंति सात्त्विका सत्वदर्शनात् ॥१॥ सुबुद्धिसचिवेनाथ वीक्षिते प्राह तापसः।
मंत्रिन् ! श्रीमद (ends abruptly) Reference.- See p. 115.
