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The Svetāmbara Narratives
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गायत्तकथानक
Gangadatta kathānaka (गणदत्तकहाणय)
(Gaigadattakabanaya)
1329. No. 172
1891-95. Size.- Iol in. by 41 in. Extent. - 21-1 =20 folios ; 13 lines to a page ; 36 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper thick, tough and white; Jaina Deva.
nagari characters with occasional पृष्ठमात्राs%3 small, quite legible, uniform and very good hand-writing; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink; red chalk used; 10 foll. numbered in the right-hand margin ; almost each and every fol. slightly worm.eaten%3; condition on the whole tolerably good ; there is some space kept blank in the centre of the numbered and the unnumbered sides as well ; the first fol. is missing ; so this work begins abruptly; 15 yellow pigment profusely used in some cases while making
corrections. Age.- Samvat 1682 Author.- Not mentioned. Subject.-- Life of Gangadatta, a Jaina monk narrated in Prakrit in 20
___prose. Begins.- abruptly fol. 2- या । सोइ खोहयं । पच्छरे मुण चितेई । जइ को
वि पइसरिस्सइ । तो पगेण जाणेसु । एवं दिणे दिणे करेऊण रायस्सगासं गच्छह । एवं वञ्चई कालो अह अन्नया कयाई । जुगंधरो नाम आसि
साहु etc. Ends. fol. 210 जाप मा पहिबंधं कायन्वं । जाव समणोवासओ जाओ । जाव
पजुवासहं । तउ । गगदत्तो ।। चाउदिसमुदटपुन्नमासणिसु । पोसहोषवास स पालेमाणो बिहरह । परमसावगो जिणवरभत्तो । गुरूदेवसस्सूसापरो। मुक्खसुहमगामाणो । अच्छह । अन्नया । कयाई संसारमउविगो पचहत्ता। बहुचउथछट्टअट्टमे बहुवीसाओ परियाओ पालित्ता । जाब सम्वदुक्खाणं अंतं 30 काहिति ॥ गंगदत्तस्स कहाणयं समत्तं ॥ ग्रंथसत ५५० ॥ संवति १६८२. घणें । आसोऽसितद्वादशीतिथौ चंद्रवासरे। लिखितं श्री धयराट'पुरे । प्रतौ यथा तथा ॥ श्रीविजयशेखरमुनिभिः ॥ श्रीः॥
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