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borders ruled in three lines in red ink ; red chalk used; soll, numbered in the right-hand margin: fol. ra blank ; so is the fol. 616; yellow pigment used while making corrections; condition very good except that the last fol, is partly worn out in margins; complete; extent 2400 ślokas ; there is some space kept blank in the centre of the numbered and the unnumbered sides as well.
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Age.-- Samvai 1549. Author:-- Rajasekhara Suri, pupil of Sritilaka Suri of Maladharin'
gaccha. His additional Sanskrit works are as under :(1) चतुर्विंशतिप्रबन्ध-प्रबन्धकोश V. S. 1405. (2) दानपत्रिंशिका. (3) न्यायकन्दलीपनिका. (4) रत्नाकरावतारिकापञ्जिका. (5) षड्दर्शनसमुच्चय. (6) स्यावादकलिका स्याद्वाददीपिका.
He has composed 'Neminātha-phāgu in Gujarāti. For other details see my Gujarāti 'introduction to Caturviṁ
sati prabandha. Subject.--A collection of 84 small stories styled as antarakathas'.
Names of some of them are noted by me while describing the Ms. No. 99. This work is named as Kathāsāra,
Vinodakathā and Vinodakathāsangraha, too. Begins.-- fol. 1 ॥ ६॥ ॐ नमः श्रीसर्वज्ञायः ॥ श्रीसरस्वत्यै नमः ॥
यन्नकामपि कामिनीं परिणयस्यभ्यर्थमानोप्प(प्य)लं
तबूनं गृहमारकातरतया मुक्तोद्यमो देवर !। मा शंकस्व हरिस्थिपंडविजयी भ्राता(5)स्ति ते सर्वदो
भामाद्याभिरितीरितस्मितमुखो नेमिर्वशी पातु वः ॥ १॥ जयंति गुरुषोऽस्माकं विद्यावल्लिमहीरुहाः। 'मलधारि'गणाधीशाः श्रीश्रीतिलकसूरयः ॥२॥ मनोविनोदहेतूनां समाहाणां यया(था)श्रुतं । मया कथानां हस्वानां क्रियते संग्रहो बुधाः! ॥ ३॥ etc.
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1 This is published in प्राचीन फागु-संग्रह ( pp. 8-11). 2 Read रत्नप्रभसूरि for 'रत्नशेखरसूरि' on p. 10 ( fn.4). 3 This verse supplies us with the name of this work auविनोदकथासङ्ग्रह, 17 [J. L. P.]
