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The Svetambara Narratives
जाय दिदिवं (च) दा जाव य उअही महीधरो 'मेरु' | बुहजणवाइजुंतलाव चरित्रं जपड लोए ।। ७३ ।।
इति श्री अष्टाहिकाचारित्रे श्री' नंदीश्वर' द्वीपवर्णनाविचारः पंचमो ( s)धिकारः || छ || तत्समाप्तौ च समाप्तं श्रीअष्टाहिका चरित्र 'तपागच्छ नायक परमगुरु श्रीश्री श्री सुमतिसाधु || सूरिमहोपाध्याय श्रीजिनमाणिक्यगणिशिष्य महोपाध्या (य)श्री अनंत हंसगणिकृते 'स्तंभतीर्थे ' ॥ छ ॥ श्रीः ॥ छः ॥ छ ॥ श्री ॥ छ ॥ संवत् १९४८ वर्षे माघ शुदि ७ शुक्रे भी स्तंभतीर्थे' ॥ जोसी पोपा लक्षतं ! ॥ ॥ छः ॥ छः ॥
Reference.-- Only this Ms. and the next one are mentioned in Jinaratnakośa (Vol. I, p. 19 ).
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अष्टाहिका विचार
No. 40
Size. 10 in. by 48 in.
Extent. 19 folios; 15 lines to a page; 44 letters to a line. Description. Country paper thin, tough and white; Jaina Devanagari characters with frequent gears; sufficiently big, quite legible, uniform and beautiful hand-writing; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink; space between the pairs coloured red ; numbers for the verses, their dandas, 20 and some lines or so etc., in the body of the work written in red ink; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin; unnumbered sides have a small disc in red colour in the centre; the numbered, in each of the two margins; each and every fol. more or less worm-eaten but mostly in the 25 margins only; condition on the whole tolerably good; yellow pigment used while making corrections; complete ; the entire work is divided into 5 adhikaras as under.Adhikara
I
foll.
II
III
IV
V
19
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Age. Not modern.
29
19
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I a to 3b
6b
12b
❞ 17a
3b
6b
12b
Aṣṭāhikāvicāra
1257. 1884-87.
17a
12
55
د.
ور
196,
S
1,0
IS
30
