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अम्बडचतुष्पदी
Amba dacatuspadi (अम्बडचोपाइ)
(Ambadacopai) No. 28
1172.
1886-92. Size.-- 101 in. by 44 in. Extent. — 118 folios; 13 lines to a page ; 30 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper thin, tough and white; Jaina Deva
nägari characters with rare ATIS ; big, fairly legible, uniform and tolerably fair hand-writing ; borders ruled in two lines in black ink; red chalk used for marking the 10 numbers for verses etc.; foll. numbered in the right- .. hand margin; some space kept blank in the centre of the unnumbered and numbered sides as well; yellow pigment used while making corrections ; several foll. more or less worm-eaten ; condition on the whole tolerably good; 15
complete ; composed in Samvat 1639 in Ujani ( Ujjen ). Age.- Not modern. Author.- Mangalamanikya, pupil of Bhanubharta He has com
posed विक्रमराज-खापर-चोर-रास in V. S. 1638. . Subject.- A narration of Ambada in Gujarati. It is a translation 20
of Ambada-kathanaka ( No. 26) composed by Muni
ratna Suri. Begins.- fol. 1 ६० ॥ वस्तु ।
सदा संपद सदा संपद रूप उकार । परमेष्टी पंचा सहित । देवत्रिणि सारदासेषित।
25 महाज्ञान आंनदमय । ब्रह्मवीजयोगेंद्रवंदित। सूयणत्रणि गुण(अणी)मय | विया चोद निवास । हुं प्रण परमातमा । सरवसिदिपवास । १।
दुहा ॥ परम प्यो(ज्योति परमेश जे । श्रीगुरु सारद माय ।
भाषिकवीश्वर संत जन नित बंदु तस पाय ॥२॥ - fol. 16. इति यो(गो) (र)षयोगनिसंबंधे अंबरविद्याधरकथायां प्रथमा
देश संपूर्णः।
