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इति सीपलविषये वीरसेनकुसुमश्रीमहासतीचउपई समाता संवत १७२६ वर्षे माहसुदि १४ दिनि लिखित पंडित श्री ५ श्री॥ __ श्रीथीतेजसुंदरगणिसिष्य - मुनिमतिसुंदरेण 'जयतारण'मध्ये । सुवं
भवतुः ।। छ॥ ॥ श्री॥ Reference - It seems that this work is not noted in Jaina Gurjara
Kario. In its Vol. III, pt. 1, pp. 931-932 extracts Virasena. kathā are given. See also Vol. I, p. 451. Is this narrative pertinent ?
वीराङ्गदकथा
Virāngadakathā
1126 . No. 705
1884-87 Size - 10% in. by 4 in. Extent - 3 folios; 15 lines to a page; 46 letters to a line. Description - Country paper thin, tough and whitish; Jaina Deva.
nāgari characters; sufficiently big, quite legible, fairly uniform and good hand-writing; borders ruled in three lines in red ink; 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 pattern; red chalk used to mark out the numbering of the verses; edges of each and every fol. more or less gone; condition on the whole toler
ably good; complete; 157 Slokās. Age - Pretty old. Author - Haribhadra? (Not available in the MS). Subject - A story of Rājarşi Virangada, son of Sūrāngada. The
efficacy of merit is pointed out here. Begins - fol. la
ए ६०॥ पत्थइ जत्थ सुपुझो । विदेसमडवि समुहमाझे वा। नंदह हिंतहास्थिय । ता भो पुलं समजिणह॥१
