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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
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वजायुधकथा
Vajrāyudhakathā
170 No. 639
1872-73 Size -101 in.4g in. Extent - 21-1 = 20 folios; 17 lines to a page; 66 letters to a line. Description-Country paper; thin, tough and whitish; Jaina Devana.
gari characters with frequent पृष्ठमात्रा63small, quite legible, uniform and very good hand-writing; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink; red chalk used; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin; in the centre of the numbered and unnumbered sides as well, there is some space kept blank so that it forms a design; yellow pigment used for making corrections; edges of some of the foll. slightly gone; condition on the
whole good; incomplete, as the Ms. ends abruptly. Age-Pretty old. Author-Not known. Subject - A story of Vajrāyudha, son of king Kşemamkara and his
wife Ratna mālā. Vajrāyudha became in course of time a
Tirthamkara pamed as śānti. Begins - fol. 1a
'जंबू' द्वीप 'पूर्व विदेहे' 'मंगलावती ' विजये 'रत्नसंचय' पुरे क्षमेकर राजा रत्नमाला तस्य पत्नी । तयोः पुत्रः शांतिनाथजीववज्रायधनामाऽभूत् । अन्यदा पारापता कांदशीक एकः शरणं कुमरस्य
प्राप्तः कथितं मा भैषी: etc. Ends -- fol. 216
प्राणा रक्षणीया : इत्युक्ते राज्ञा स्वसुतो बहुसैन्यसहितः कुमरः प्रेषित:। मह दूर संपत्तो पंथे सिद्व : पुरनयरबाहिमि । मुच्छानिमीलिअच्छो पडिभो सो रहस्सुवरि ॥१ तोमब्भिमखंधारे उच्छलिए कलयलं मि सहसंत्ति ।
मिलिउ अग्नी ए । ends abruptly. Reference - It seems that this work is not mentioned in the Jina.
ratnakosa (Vol. I).
