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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. 5 Author.- Not known. ___Subject.- A story of king Nala. It points out evil effects of attach
ment to gambling. Begins. - fol.1 ॥५०॥ अथ नलकथानकं ॥
अत्र 'भरते' 'कोशल' देशे 'कोशला' नाम नगरी । तत्र 'इक्ष्वाकु'कुलोत्पनो। 10 निषधो नाम राजा । तस्य सुंदरी नाम राज्ञी। etc. ११. Ends.- fol. 11' व्रतं पालयितुं अशक्तो नलो(s)[भ]नशनं करोति । दवदंत्या
(5)पि अनशनं गृहीतं । नलो मृत्वा कुबेरो जातः । दवदंती मृत्वा तस्य भार्या जाता । किंचिव्रतविराधनात् नीचदेवत्वं प्राप्तो द्वावपि कर्म क्षपित्वा क्रमेण मोक्षं यास्यतः
इति द्यूतविषये नलकथानकं समाप्त छ॥ श्रीरस्तु ॥ करकृतमप
राधे क्षतुमहंतु संतु ॥ Reference.- For additional Mss. see Jinaratnakośa (Vol. I, p. 205 ).
Here this work is erroneously looked upon as same as No. 337.
20 नल-दवदन्ती-रास
Nala-Davadanti-rāsa
357. No. 339
1871-72. Size.- 93 in. by 4t in. Extent.-- 28+1-2=27 folios; 15 lines to a page ; 48 letters to 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 ; dandas and lines written at times in red ink; in the centre we have a square with vertical diagonals in red ink ; this square is divided into 4 small squares%3; foll. numbered in
