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Pārśvanāthadaśabhavacaritra, 18th cent.?

Contents

The Pārśvanāthadaśabhavacaritra, a work in prose, mixed with ślokas, on the ten bhavas of the Jina Pārśvanātha

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: [1v] śrīgurubhyo namaḥ | Nābheyāya namas tasmai | yasya kramanakhāṃśavaḥ | mauli dadhati namrāṇāṃ | maṃgalyām akṣataśriyaṃ ǁ 1 ǁ stumaḥ śrīśāṃtināthasya kramachāyādrumadvayaṃ | vyasminn aśrāṃtaviśrāṃtai | bhavatāpo na vidyate ǁ 2 ǁ manodṛśa yad aṃgāṃsaṃ | divyājananijojanaṃ | kalpāṇanidhilābhāya | satāṃ Nemiṃ tam āśreye ǁ 3 ǁ bhaktiprahvo dvijihvo ’pi | prāpoccaiḥ padasaṃpadaṃ | yasminn asmi nato bhaktyā | taṃ śrīpārśvajineśvaraṃ ǁ 4 ǁ taṃ namāmi jinaṃ vīraṃ | yadutthāt triṃṣadi nadi | kṣāmadharaṃ guruṃ prāpa | viśvaḥ vyāpāstakalmakhā ǁ 5 ǁ samastebhyaḥ śubhajñānaḥ vadanebhyo jagattraye | trikālaviṣayebhyo ’pi | jiteṃdrebhyo namo stute ǁ 6 ǁ
Explicit: [39v] kevalajñānam utpannaṃ ekasatavarasāyu pālayitvā bahūnāṃ jatīnāṃ tapasvīnāṃ upāśakānāṃ dharmaṃ bhājakṛtvā paścātamuktīm īyayau | iti śrīpārśvanāthadaśabhavacaritra saṃpūrṇaṃ |

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
Extent: iii + 39 + xxx
Dimensions (binding): 25.7 × 12.4 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī, Jaina style.

f. 39v: Maṃgalapūramadhye śrīnavapalavapārśvanāthaprasādāt |

History

Origin: 18th cent.?

probably the beginning of the 18th century.

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzsch (MS. 452).

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1404, p. 239

Availability

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Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    Moriz Winternitz and Arthur Berriedale Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1905), no. 1404, p. 239

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