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Age -- Samvat 1743. Author - Bhāvacandra Sūri, pupil of Jayacandra Sūri of Rākā paksa
(i, e. Purnimā gaccha). Subject -Life of Lord Santinatha in Sanskrit prose. His earlier 12
births are here described. Begins — fol. 16
॥शारदायै नमः ॥ प्रणिपत्याहतः सर्वान् वाग्देवीं सद्गुरु( नपि)
(गद्य) बंधन वक्ष्यामि भीशांतिचरितं मुदा ॥१॥ etc. Ends - fol. 2626
यस्योपसर्गाः स्मरणे प्रयान्ति विश्वेयदीपाश्च गुणा न मांति ॥ मृगांकलक्ष्माकनकस्य शांतिः को संघस्य शांतिः स करोतु शांतिः ॥११॥
इति श्री श्री श्रीभावचंद्रसूरिविरचिते गद्यबंधे श्रीशांतिनाथचरिते द्वादशभववर्णनो नाम षष्टः प्रस्तावः।।
॥ श्रीशांतिचरित्रपरिपूर्णमभूत् ॥ ॥छ॥
ग्रंथाग्रंथ १०००४ यावत् ॥ ॥ संवत् १७४३ वर्षे पौषशुद्धाऽष्टम्यां रवी
लिखितमिदं ॥॥ शुभं भवतु ॥ ॥ श्री॥॥छ । श्री॥ छ । श्री॥ Reference -- Published in the Jaina Dharma Prasāraka Sabha Series,
as No. 19 from Bhāvnagar, also published by Hiralal Hamsaraj, Jamnagar in A. D. 1924. The Gujarati translation of this work is published by the above-mentioned Sabhā in Samvat 1978.
For additional MSS. see B. B. R. A. 8. (Vols. III. IV. p. 449) and Jina ratnakosa (Vol. I, pp. 379-380). One of the MSS. is dated V. S. 1535 and written by the author himself.
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