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सुसढचतुष्पदी
Susadhacatuspadi (सुसढचोपाइ)
(Susadhacopāi)
902 No. 857
1892-95 Size – 9; in. by 44 in. Extent – 69 folios ; 13 lines to a page; 35 letters to a line. Description - Country paper very thin, tough and white; Jaina Deva
nāgari characters; big, perfectly legible, uniform and very good hand-writing; borders ruled in two lines and edges in one, in red ink; red chalk used; foll. numbered in the righthand margin; fol. 69b blank; white paste used on fol. 694%3; condition very good; complete; composed in Samvat 1737 in Akabarābāda in Gujarāti.
Age - Samvat 1818.
Author-Jinadharma.
Subject - Story of Susadha based upon Mahanisiha. Begins — fol. 1a
श्रीगणेशाय नमः दूहा। पास जिनेसर प्रणमियै सानिधकारी सामि धरणीधरपदमावती प्रतदिन करुं प्रणम १ वर दीधो पदमावती सेवकवनै सुषकार
'किडीथी' कुंजर कीयौ गिरूमओ ए उपगार २ After two verses we have :
महानिसीथ सिद्धांतमै सरस सुसढसंबंध
किणही कारण कवियणे रच्यो नही परबंध ५ etc. Ends -fol. 680
सुसढ तणी अतिसुंदसू रे मुझ सिष्य नाम मुरारि तेहनै करि देवी तुम्हे रे अरज एह अवधारि ११ द० चतुर जोडाई चउपई रे श्रीजिनधर्मसूरीस जयवंता जग जाणीय रे वलि सौ कोडि वरीस १९८०
