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The Svetāmbara Works
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Description - Country paper thin, tough and white; Jaina Devanagari
characters with rare 1879 ; big, quite legible, uniform and very good hand-writing; borders ruled in four lines in black ink; yellow pigment used while making corrections; foll. numbered in both the margins; in the left-hand margin the title is written as सुसढकथा; fol, 10b blank; corners of some of the foll. gone; condition on the whole tolerably good : there is some space kept blank in the centre of the numbered and unnumbered sides as well, complete.
Age -Not modern.
Author - Not known and different from preceding also. Subject - A narrative of Susadha in Prakrit. He practised many
penances but they were lacking in yatanā (careful attention ). Begins - fol. 14 ए ६०॥
'रायगिहे ' गुणसिलए समो सढो अन्नया जिणो वरोि। जइणो(s)जइणो धर्म। परिसामज्झे परुवेइ । जयं चरे जयं चिढे । जयमासे जयं स ए । जयं भुंजतो भासंतो पावं कम्मं न बंधई । (२) जो पुण्ण जइणारहिउ । सुसढो तवं चरेइ बहुयं पि ।
सो घो रे संसारे । अणोरपारेइ भमइ दुहिउ। ३ । etc. Ends-fol. 10a
जइ पुण गोयमासुसढो। भुंजतो आउकायमिह नेव तो जंतो परमपर्य जिणवर आणाइ संहुत्तो।२ किंच मासं दुमासखमणं छम्मासे जाव लोईयारिसिणो। भायावणाइ पुन्छ । कुणंति जंति व्व चरणं च पढमदिण दिक्खियस्स वि जइणो जइणाइलक्खिमंसेवि -
नय अयह तं जम्हा खलु स्वमदमझयणाघ परिहीणं एवं यतनासहितं तपश्चरणं कार्य । एवं सुसढकथा संक्षिप्ताः ॥१॥छ ॥॥ श्री श्री श्री॥ छ॥
Reference -- This MS. along with many more of the anonymous work
of Susadhacaritra is noted in Jinaratnakosa (Vol. I, p. 448)
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