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The Svetambara Works
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Description-Country paper thin, tough and white; Jaina Devanagari
characters with rare T ars; big, quite legible, uniform and very good hand-writing; borders ruled in four lines in black ink; yellow pigment used while making corrections%3; 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 tolerablygood; 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 ए६०॥
'रायगिहे' गुणसिलए समो सढो अन्नया जिणो वरोि। जइणो(5)जहणो धर्म । परिसामज्झे परूवेइ। जयं चरे जयं चिट्टे । जयमासे जयं स ए । जयं भुंजतो भासंतो पावं कम्मं न बंधई । (२) जो पुण्ण जइणारहिउ । सुसढो तवं चरेइ बहुयं पि ।
सो घोरे संसारे । अणोरपारेइ भमइ दुहिउ । ३ । etc. Ends - fol. 10a
जइ पुण गोयमासुसढो। भुंजतो आउकायमिह नेव तो जंतो परमपयं जिणवर आणाइ संहुत्तो । २ किंच मासं दुमासखमणं छम्मासे जाव लोईयारिसिणो। मायावणाइ पुन्व । कुणंति जंति व्व चरणं च पढमदिण दिक्खियस्स वि जइणो जहणाइलक्खिमंसेवि .
नय अयइ तं जम्हा खलु स्वमदमझयणाघ परिहीर्ण 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)
