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256. ] The Svetāmbara Narratives
345 त्रिषष्टिशलाकापुरुषचरित्र
Trișastisalākāpuruşacaritra (a )
( Parvan 2) [ Sustaarafta]
[ Ajitanāthacaritra ] No. 256
1291.
1887-91. Size-104 in. by 41 in. Extent.- 69 folios ; 15 lines to a page; 54 letters to a line. Description.-- Country paper thick, tough and whitish ; Jaina
Devanagari characters with frequent ATSIS; small, quite legible, uniform and very good hand-writing ; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink ; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin ; fol. 1. blank; so is practically fol. 696 except that the title etc, written on it ; there is some space kept blank in the centre of the numbered and the unnumbered sides as well ; in the left-hand margins the title is variously written e. g. 3 , Tiao, TFTgo etc.; condition very good ; complete ; there are in all six sargas of this second parvan; the extent of each of them is as under :Sarga I fol.
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,, is 69. Age.- Pretty old. Author.---'Kalikālasarvajña' Hemacandra Sûri. For details see
P. 342. Subject.- Life of Lord Ajita (the second Tirthankıra of the Jainas)
and that of Sagara (the second cakravartin) written in
verse in Sanskrit. It is a part of sèriestor 195efia. Begins.- fol. 16 y&o Il Ball
जयंत्यजितनाथस्य जितशोणमणिश्रियः। नमेंद्रवदनादर्शाः पादपद्मद्वयीनखाः ॥१ कर्माहिपाशनिर्नाश जांगली'मंत्रसन्निभं ।
SISTA Fatihaku Tita rafiFug 11 etc. 44 (J. L. P. 1
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