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Jaina Literature and Philnsophy [659
Vastupāla-prabandha
वस्तुपालप्रबन्ध No. 659
171 1872-73
Size — 104 in. by 41 in.
Extent - 80 folios; 17 lines to a page; 50 letters to a line.
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Description - Country paper thin, tough and white; Jain Devanāgari
characters with frequent q8H71S; small, quite legible, fairly uniform and very good hand-wrirting; borders ruled in three lines in red ink; red chalk used; foll. numbered in the right. band margin; some portions of the first few foll. are not quile legible as they are blurred; in the centre of the numbered and unmunbered sides as well, there is some space kept blank so that it forms a design; fol. 800 blank; eages of the first and last foll, slightly gone; condition on the whole good; complete; 8 prastāvas in all; the extent of each of them is as under :Prastāva I foll. 18 to 5a II , 50 , 16a
16a IV
240 36a , V , 362 , 48a , VI , 480 , 59a VII 59a
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802. foll. 52a-60a written in very small hand-writing.
This work is composed in V. S. 1497.
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Author - Jinaharsa Gani. pupil of Jayacandra Sūri of the Tapāgaccha
Subject - Life of Vastupāla, a minister and that of his brother Tejapāla,
a minister in Sanskrit. Begins — fol 92
॥६० ॥ श्रीमानहन् शिवः स्वामी । नाभिभूः पुरुषोत्तमः । पुष्णातु भक्तिनिष्ठानां । श्रियं सर्वार्थदायिनी ॥ १ सार्वाः सर्वेऽजितस्वामिप्रमुखा सुखसंततिं qurtu ghefeat agera at fara: 11 8 etc.
