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Jaina Literature and Philosophy अगडदत्तचरित्र
Agadadattacaritra
1568. No. 3
1891-95. Size.— 76 in. by 44 in. Extent. - 23-3=20 folios; ii lines to a page ; 37 letters to
___a line. Description.- Country paper thick, tough and greyish in colour;
Jaina Devanagari characters; legible, bold, big and fairly good hand-writing ; borders ruled in three lines in red ink; even their edges ruled in double red lines ; red chalk used for marking the numbers of couplets; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin; fol. 23° blank; foll. 2,3&8 missing ; white chalk used in place of yellow pigment ; condition very good except that edges of some of the foll. are slightly gone; complete; composed in Samvat 1703
in Vairāyara. Age.- Sarivat 1732. Author.- Punyanidhana, pupil of Vimalatidaya. Subject.— Life of Agadadatta described in Gujarati in verse in
___metres such as दूहा, चोपई etc. Begins.- fol. I" नमः । दुहा।
.. परमेसर धुरि प्रणामि करि । सदगुरु प्रणाम उलास ।
सरसति पणि प्रणमेव करि । विरचिसि वचनविलास ॥१॥ परमेसर यह अचल पद । सदगुरु श्रुत सुविचार ।
सरसति पचनविलास यह । तिणि तीने ततसार ॥२॥ etc. Ends.-- fol. 23 शालिभद्र छ(घ)मा ऋषिनी परि । जइसई मजसुकुमाला ।
॥२॥ सब प्रजुन महाऋषि ढंढण। तिम कहइ जाल मयाली। जंबू वहरकुमार तणु जस । अवंतीसुकुमाली ॥ ३॥ भ० । अभयकुमार अचल विजयादिक बलभद्र मुनि सुविचारी। ध(च)रमरुची अणगार चिलाती । अनंत अनीक अपहार ॥४॥
म । बीसे थानक तपस्या तपतौ । बावीस परीसह धारी।। अनुक्रमि अणसण पचपि अनोपम । पहूता सरग मझारी ॥ ५॥ १० संवत गुण नभ (माने ) शिस (१७०३) घरसइ विजयदशमि
दे(दि)न रंगह।
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