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The Svetămbara Works.
वस्तुपाल-तेजपाल-रास
Vastupāla-Tejapāla-rāsa
784 No. 658
1899-1915 Size -101 in. by 43 in. Extent - 3 folios; 13 lines to a page; 35 letters to a line. Description -Country paper somewhat thick, rough. tough and
white; Jaina Devanagari characters with occasional पृष्ठमात्रा big, quite legible, fairly uniform and 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 case of the numbered and unnumbered sides as well, there is some space kept blank, so that it forms a design; the 3rd and the last fol. partly torn; otherwise condition good; in the left. hand margins, the title is indicated as वस्तुपाल, वस्तुरास and वस्तु.
रास; complete; 56 pada. . Age - Pretty old. Author - Lakşmisingh. Subject - A parrative of Vastūpāla, a minister and that of Tejapala,
his brother in Gujarati. Begins - fol. 1a
ए६० ॥ वीरजिणे सर नमिय पाय ॥ अनइ गोयमसामी । सरसति तणई सुपसाउ लइए । कहिसिंउ सिरि नामी वस्तुपाल ते जिगि तणउ ए॥ अलि बोलिस्यु रासो। 'भरह' क्षेत्र धुरि 'गूजरात'।
'भणहिल' निवासो ॥१॥ etc. Ends - fol. 36
वसु(स्तु)पाल तेजिग तणउ ए॥मा० । च । चरित सुणइ नरनारि । सुप(ब)। तेहन इ धवरि अफल फल इएमि ..। भष्टमहासिद्धि पृरिसु.। म. ॥ ५६
इति श्रीमंहवस्तुपालतेजपालरासः समाप्त । Reference - For extracts and additional Mss. see Jaina Gurjara Kavio
Vol. III Part 1, pp. 587-88.
