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पद्मसुन्दरविरचित कुशलोपदेशकोश
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The Kuśalopadešakosa, as its name suggests, is a small collection of beneficial wise sayings embodied in 77 Sanskrit verses. It contains practical suggestions for the success in political, social and religious career. It is fraught with pithy sentences expressing practical sagacity.
The style is simple. It is neither elaborate nor obscure Onc hardly finds any literary embellishment The work seems to be the first composition of Padmasundara, the author.
Padmasundara was honoured by Emperor Akbara He was a great scholar and prolific writer. He wrote Akabarasühisrngära. darpaņa (a work on poetics, published in Gangă Oriental cries), Hayanasundara (a work on Astrology), Pramanasundara (a work on Logic, included in Jama Philosophical Tracts published in L. D. Series), Sundaraprakāśa-śahdārnara (a lexicon). Yadusun daramahākāvya, Pārsvanāthamahāhārya, Raj amallabhyudaya mahākāvja, etc
The text of this small work is edited here on the basis of a paper ms belonging to the L. D. Collection presented in the L.D. Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad. It bears the Serial No 1682. It has three folios. Folio IA is blank and 3B contains only 10 lines. Folios 1B, 2A, 2B and 3A contain 14 lines
Each line has 42 letters The size of the ms is 20 5 cms
5 cms. The handwriting is uniform and beautiful. The mis written in the 17th century of Vikrama Era
