Summary of Contents: A collection of fourteen Jaina stotras written in Sanskrit and Prākrit on paper. Includes a collection of portraits of twenty four Jinas.
1. F. 2.
Upasargaharastotra Name Upasarggaharaº in the MS.
Language(s): Prākrit.
2. Ff. 2-3.
Śrītajayapaṃhutastotra Stanzas 14–16 are missing.
Mānadeva Language(s): Prākrit.
3. Ff. 3-5.
Bhayaharastotra Mānatuṅga Language(s): Prākrit.
4. Ff. 5-9.
Śrīajitaśāntijinastavana Language(s): Prākrit.
5. Ff. 9-12.
Bhaktāmarastotra Language(s): Sanskrit.
6. Ff. 13-15.
A praise of Śānti, which practically consists in desiring that all the world should have śānti. No author’s name or title is given, and probably it was written by the scribe of the MS. himself.
Explicit: upasargā kṣayaṃ yāṃti | bidyaṃte vighnaval layaṃ | anaprasannatām eti pūjyamāne jine svare ǁ 4 ǁ iti śrīśāṃ |
Language(s): Sanskrit.
7. Ff. 16-21.
Kalyāṇamandirastotra Siddhasena Divākara Language(s): Sanskrit.
8. Ff. 21-23.
Śrīpārśvanāthastuti. Incipit: kiṃ karpūramayaṃ sudhārasamayaṃ kiṃ caṃdrarocirmayaṃ | kiṃ lāvaṇyamayaṃ mahāmaṇimayaṃ kāruṇyakevalīmayaṃ | viśvānaṃdamayaṃ mahodayamayaṃ śaubhāmayaṃ cinmayaṃ | śukladhyānamayaṃ vapur jinapater bhavālaṃbanaṃ ǁ 1 ǁ
Explicit: iti śrīcitāmaṇapārśvanāthastotraṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ |
Language(s): Sanskrit.
9. F. 23.
A short stotra of Pārśvanātha. Incipit: sphūradevanāgeṃdravṛṃdāramālā-| maraṃdacchaṭādhautapādāravṛṃdaṃ | parānaṃdasaṃdarvalakṣmīśanāthaṃ | stuve devaciṃtāmaṇipārśvanāthaṃ ǁ 1 ǁ tamorāsivitrāsanivāsiresaṃ | hataḥkleśaleśaṃ śrīyāṃ saṃnivesaṃ | kramālīnapadmāvatiprāṃṇanāthaṃ | stuve devaciṃtāmaniṃ Pārśvanāthaṃ ǁ 2 ǁ
Explicit: iti śrīpārśvanāthastotraṃ | saṃpūrṇaṃ | śrī |
Language(s): Sanskrit.
10. F. 48.
A stotra of the Jinendras. Incipit: śrīgurubhyo namaḥ | darśanaṃ devadevasya | darśanaṃ pāpanāśanaṃ | darśanaṃ svargāsaupānaṃ | darśanaṃ mokṣasādhanaṃ ǁ 1 ǁ darśanena jineṃdrāṇāṃ | sādhūnāṃ vaṃdanena ca | na tiṣṭhatī ciraṃ pāpaṃ chidrahaste yathodakaṃ ǁ 2 ǁ
Explicit: adya me kṣālitaṃ gātra | netre ca vimalīkṛte | snāto ’haṃ punyatīrtheṣu | jineṃdra tava darśanāt ǁ 6 ǁ
Language(s): Sanskrit.
11. Ff. 49-50.
Caityavandanā Incipit: śrīgurubhyo namaḥ | atha Caityavaṃdanā liṣyate | sadbhaktyā devaloke raviśasībhuvane vyaṃtarāṇāṃ nikāye | nakṣatrānāṃ nivāse grahagaṇapaṭale tārakāṇāṃ vimāne | pātāle (?) pannageṃdre sphūṭamaṇikariṇe dhvastasāṃdrāṃdhakāre | śrīmattīrthaṃkarāṇāṃ pratidivasam ahaṃ tatra caityāni vaṃde ǁ 1 ǁ
Explicit: iti śrīcaityavaṃdanā saṃpūrṇa |
Language(s): Sanskrit.
12. Ff. 50-51.
Śrīparameṣṭhīstotra Rāmacandra Incipit: sakaladevamānavapatisahitaṃ vigatarodhabodhabalasahitaṃ | atisahītoditamahisākalitaṃ naumi jinaṃ yaugamatiphalitaṃ |
Explicit: śrīhīrānaṃdacaṃdrapāvasiṣyeṇa rāmacaṃdreṇa bhaktyā śrīparameṣṭīnityaṃ stavaṃ gocaraṃ rūta | iti śrīparameṣṭīstotraṃ |
Language(s): Sanskrit.
13. Ff. 51-54v.
A stotra Jayacandra Incipit: rucitaruciracaṃdranāgeṃdraleṣeṃdramartyeṃdrasadbhaktisaṃsaktanāmnī bhavanmaulinīleṃdrasaṃjātarociśrīyālirujāṃ saṃkulaṃ nirmmalaṃ yasya te bhaktasatprāṇisammodakiṃjalkaśāraṃ padabjaṃ bhavāpārasaṃsāratāpāpṛhaṃ taṃ stuve ’haṃ sadā śrījinaṃ śobhanaṃ ǁ 1 ǁ
Explicit: iti śrīpaṃcajineṃdradaṃdakastuti śrīpārśvacaṃdrasūreṃ-drasiṣyaśrīsemaracaṃdrasūreṃdratatśiṣyaśrīrājacaṃdra-sūreṃdrasiṣyeṇa śrījayacaṃdreṇa kṛtaṃ idaṃ stotraṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ |
Language(s): Sanskrit.
14. Ff. 55-56v.
Paramātmānandastotra Rubric: śrīgurubhyo namaḥ |
Incipit: paramānaṃdasaṃyuktaṃ | nirvikāraṃ nirāmayaṃ | dhyānahīnā na pasyaṃti | nijadehe vivasthitaṃ ǁ 1 ǁ anaṃtasuṣlasaṃpannaṃ | jñānāmṛtapayodharāṃ | anaṃtavīryasaṃpannaṃ | darśanaṃ paramātmanaḥ ǁ 2 ǁ
Explicit: kāṣṭamadhye yathā vahni saktirūpeṇa tiṣṭhati | ayam ātmā śarīreṣu yo jānāti sa paṃḍitaḥ ǁ 25 ǁ iti paramātmaṃdastotraṃ samāptaṃ | śrīḥ | oṃ nama siddhaṃ | sadāyoga |
Language(s): Sanskrit.
Form: codex
Support: Paper.
Extent: ii +
56 +
ii Dimensions (binding): 16.5 × 18.4 cm.
Foliation: Arabic numerals in pencil, top-right corner, recto.
Condition
Complete.
The first three lines of each page have been damaged by water. They had stuck together, and the separation has made many letters quite illegible.
Layout
Bounded on either side by three red lines.
Hand(s)
Devanāgarī, with some Jaina characteristics, in black and red ink.
‘All the pieces were evidently written by one hand. His name is given on f. 54v: liṣatam ṛṣaharṣa (?) caṃdreṇa śrīpaṭṭaṇāṃmadhye bhātṛnihālacaṃdrayutena maṃgalaṃ bhuyāt sāhajīśrīsuṣadevapaṭhanārthaṃ |’
Decoration
Ff. 24-47: Portraits, of the usual conventional type, of twenty-four Jinas: Ādinātha, Ajitanātha, Saṃbhavanātha, Abhinaṃdananātha, Sumatinātha, Padmaprabha, Supārśvanātha, Caṃdraprabha, Suvidhanātha, Sītalanātha, Sreyāṃsanātha, Vāsavapūjya, Vimalanātha, Anaṃtanātha, Dharmanātha, Śaṃtinātha, Kuṃthānātha, Arahanātha, Mallinātha, Munisuvrata, Naminātha, Neminātha, Pārsvanātha, Mahāvīra, each with a laṃchana. The latter are better drawn, but the spelling of their names is as inaccurate as in the case of the Jinas. On the back of each portrait is written the name of the subject in Persian characters, on the front in Sanskrit, with the name of the laṃchana.
Origin: 18th cent.? ‘None of the pieces are dated, but the end of the 18th century is the most likely period.’
Provenance and Acquisition
The collection of Sir Gore Ouseley was purchased by the Bodleian in 1858.