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The Svetambara Narratives
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संवत् पनरइ छपन्न (१५५६ ) सही। प्रथम जेठ पूनिम दिन लही ।
बुधवारि अनुराधा मांहि कीधउ चरित ए मनि उछाह ।। ९२ ॥ इति श्रीगजसिंहचउपई चतुर्थ षंड समाप्तः ॥ ४॥
संवत् १६७८ वर्षे । कार्तिक बदि ११ दिने श्रीवृहदमंडाहअगदेवा. भीश्रदेवसुंदरशिष्यमोहनजीलिषतं । गाथा ४९२ ॥ ग्रंथानं ७७२ ॥ ॥
शुभं भवतुः ॥ श्रीरस्तुः ।। आचंद्राको 'चिरि निंदित् ।। छः छः १॥ N. B.- For additional information see No. 173.
गजसिंहभूपचरित्र
Gajasimhabhūpacaritra
1598. No. 176
1891-95. 10 Size.- 9 in. by 4 in. Extent.-60-2=58 folios ; 16 lines to a page; 30 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper somewhat thick, rough and white;
Jaina Devanagari characters; big, quite legible, uniform and very good hand-writing ; borders and edges as well is. ruled in two lines in red ink ; numbers for the verses and their daņdas and some lines written in red ink ; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin ; the first two foll. are missing ; so the work begins abruptly; condition very good; the entire work is divided into four ullasas ; the 20 extent of each of them is as under:Uliasa ( visrāma ) I foll. 3' to 20+
" II , 20%,, 320 __, , III , 320 ,, 420
IV , 42° ,, 60*. Fol. 37" blank; so is the fol. 606; composed in
Samvar 1653 at Pindapura. Age.- Samvat 1904. Author.- Manavijaya, pupil of Kapuravijaya and guru of Pratapa. ___He has composed Manatunga-Manavati-rasa.
30 Subject.- A life-sketch of Gajasimha in Gujarati in verse.
1 It seems that the correct reading is “चिरं नंदतात्".
