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The Svetămbara Works
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Extent - 5 folios; 13 lines to a page ; 36 letters to a line.
Description - Country paper thin, tough and white; Jaina Devanāgari
characters with frequent पृष्ठमात्राs; big, quite legible, uniform and very good hand-writing; borders ruled in two thick red lines superimposed on black lines; the space between these lines coloured yellow; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin%3 in the centre of the numbered and unnumbered sides as well, there is some space kept blank, so that it forms a design%3 in the left-hand margin%3 the title is written as सुगुणकुमारकथा; complete; condition very good.
Age - Old.
Subject — A story of king Suguņa endowed with four kinds of intelli
gence told in Sanskrit prose.
Begins -fol. 10॥६ ॥
धर्माद् धनं धनत एव समस्तकामाः । कामेभ्य एव सुखमिंद्रियजं समग्रं । कार्यार्थिना हि खलु कारणमेषणीयं । धम्मों विधेय इति तत्वविदो वदंति ॥ भतो(s)स्मिन्नसारे(5)पि संसारे सारः श्रीजिनधर्म एव । तदाराधनात्मनो वांछितसिद्धिर्भवति । बुद्धिचतुष्टयग्राहिणः । सुगुणकुमारस्येव ।
तत् सुगुणकुमारकथानकं । यथा etc. Ends - fol. 56
इति मित्रकुमाराय स्वस्वभवोपार्जितकर्म श्रुत्वा । धर्मपरा जाता मुनिमभिवंद्य । महता महोत्सवे नगरप्रवेशं कृत्वा । समित्र सगुणराजा धर्म राधयति । श्रीजिनधर्म चिंतामणिमिवाराध्य वे(वै )देहे सिसि ॥ इति सुगुणकुमारकथाः॥
Reference -This work is noted in Jaina Granthāvali on p. 262 and in
Jinaratnakota (Vol. 1, p. 444).
