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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
[338.
unnumbered sides as well; yellow pigment used for marking corrections : edges of several foll. gone ; condition on the
whole tolerably good ; complete. Age:- Pretty old. s Author.-- Not known. Subject.- A story of king Nala. It points out evil effects of attach
ment to gambling. Begins. - fol.] ॥ ५० ॥ अथ नल कथानकं ॥
अत्र 'भरते' 'कोशल' देशे 'कोशला' नाम नगरी । तत्र 'इक्ष्वाकु'कुलोत्पनो।
निषधो नाम राजा । तस्य सुंदरी नाम राज्ञी। etc. Ends.- fol. 11° व्रतं पालयितुं अशक्तो नला(5)[भ]नशनं करोति । दवदत्या
(5)पि अनशनं गृहीतं । नलो मृत्वा कुबेरो जातः । दवदंती मृत्वा तस्य भार्या जाता । किंचिन्व्रतविराधनात् नीचदेवत्वं प्राप्तो द्वावपि कर्म क्षपित्वा क्रमेण मोक्षं यास्यतः
__इति तविषये नलकथानकं समाप्त छ॥ श्रीरस्तु ॥ करकृतमप
राधे शंतुमहंतु संतु ॥ Reference.- For additional Mss. see Jinaratnakosa (Vol. 3, p. 205).
Here this work is erroneously looked upon as same as No. 337.
20 नल-दवदन्ती-रास
Nala-Davadanti-rāsa No. 339
357.
1871-72. Size.- 9 in. by 41 in. Extent.-- 28+1-2 = 24 folios ; 15 lines to a page; 43 letters 10 a
line. 25 Description. - Country paper thin, rough and white; Jaina Deva.
nagari characters; sufficiently big, fairly legible, almost uniform and tolerably good hand-writing ; borders ruled in three lines and edges in one case in two in red ink ; daņdas and lines written at times in red ilik; in the centre we have a square with vertical diagonals in red i:k ; this square is divided into 4 small squares; foll. numbered in
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