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The Svetāmbara Works
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श्री श्रीजसानीविजियराज्ये चिरंजीवी ॥ श्रीकल्याणमस्तुः ॥ श्री जय जगदंबे नमः । श्रीरस्तुः ॥
॥ मुनिज्ञानविजयपठनार्थम् ।। Reference — For extracts and additional MSS. see Jaina Gurjara
Kavio (Vol. I, pp. 261-262). On p. 262 the date of composition of this work is given as V, S. 1646.
सुसढकथा
Susadhakathā
1247 No. 855
1884-87 Size - 103 in. by 41 in. Extent - 14 folios; 15 lines to a page; 42 letters to a line. Description - Country paper thin, tough and greyish; Jaina Devanāgari
characters; big, quite legible, 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 centre of the numbered and unnumbered sides as well, there is some space kept blank, so that it forms a design ; in the left-hand margins, the title is written as HE H; on foll, 16 and 14b in the left-hand margins qteft 289 2x is written; yellow pig. ment used for making corrections; a portion from the lefthand margin worm-eaten ; condition on the whole tolerably good; complete; the last two lines written in a later hand.
Age – Samvat 1564.
Author - Not known.
Subject - Story of Susadha in Prakrita poetry extracted from Mabā.
nisīha, a cheyasutta. Though he practised penances, they were lacking in yatana (careful attention). The following works may be consulted for comparison of the story :JAT&T in Prakrit verses, anonymous. FAT*T in Prakrit verses, by Devendra Sūri. सुसढचरित्रs anonymous.
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