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Surasundaricatus padi (Surasundaricopai )
सुरसुन्दरी चतुष्पदी (सुरसुन्दरीचोपर)
No. 852
Size - 10 in. by 42 in.
Extent - 22 folios; 15 lines to a page; 45 letters to a line. Description — Country paper thin, tough and white; Jaina Devanāgari characters; small, fairly legible and tolerably good hand - writing; borders ruled in three lines and edges in one, in red ink; red chalk profusely used; foll. numbered in the righthand margin; fol. 1a blank; this MS seems to be exposed to rain; condition very good; complete ; 4 khandas and 40 dhālas in all ; the total extent 900 slokas; composed in V. S. 1736 at Benātata in ; and based upon Silataranginl.
(1) अमर सेन-वैरसेन - चोपह
(2) आलोयण-स्तवन V. S. 1754
Age-Old.
Author Dharmavardhana (Dharmasimha), successor of Vacaka Vijayaharsa of the Kharatara gaccha. His 8 additional works are as under :
(3) चतुर्दश-गुणस्थान- स्तवन V. S. 1729
( 4 )
1500
1887-91
दशार्णभद्र चोपड़
(5) वीरभक्तामर ( भक्तामर स्तोत्र - पादपूर्ति ) V. S. 1736 (6) afrit V. S. 1729
(7) शनिश्वर विक्रम चोपड़
(8) समवसरण विचारगर्भितस्तवन
Subject - -Story of Surasundari and Amarakumara in Gujarāti.
Begins
fol. 10 ॥ ॐ ॥ श्रीगुरवे नमः
सासण जेहन भो सलहियइ आज प्रत्यक्ष प्रमाण जगगुरु वीर जिदिनैं प्रणमुं उलट आणि १ जेहनइ साध संवेगधर हुआ व (च ) वद हजार । सहस छत्रीसे साधवी ज्ञानक्रियागुणधार २ etc. After a few verses
भागम माहि अनेक छह एहना गुण अधिकार सुरसुंदरी सुष लह्मा सुणिज्यो ते सुविचार ८ etc.
