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i piedi sul capo. Percio il mio viso e nero." Now as I have shown in my note on XVI, 20ff. of Si, a correct interpretation of the whole passage of the Rājasthānī recension as well as a solution of the problem of its origin is possible by the aid of the Nāciketa-episode of the Vārāha-purāņa, which also helps to explain some more discrepancies between Nāsaketari Kathā and Nāsiketopākhyāna. I refer to the respective note.
A further argument in favour of the assumption of relations to the V.P., is the fact that the prominence of the Vişnu worship (which plays so important a part in our kathä) has a parallel in the V.P., whereas throughout BeFi, the worship of Śiva is predominent, as Belloni Filippi has shown (1. c. p. 54).
Thus we come to the conclusion that the text from which our Rājasthānī recension is derived, was, in general, closely akin to BeFi, but in certain features agreed more closely with the V.P.
It is uncertain, how far some other differences between the Rājasthānī recension and BeFi ( as e.g., the different adhyāyadivision ) are due to this source, or to the compiler of the Rājasthānī recension, who, by the way, has worked rather arbitrarily, and, sometimes, rather stupidly, as shown in my notes on 1, 97; IX, 10; X, 2. These passages make it even probable that the compiler knew his source only from oral communication : a hypothesis which is borne out by the shape in which some of the Samskrta names ( especially of the hells and of the judges of the lower world ) appear ( see the notes on VII, 83 and LX, 8), as well as by the confusion of some special features in the text of the Nāsaketari Kathā ( such as of the punishments of all the respective sinners, or of the tortures and characteristics of the respective hells ).
That the shape of the Nāsaketari Kathā text to which Si and Te go back had undergone corruptions, is obvious from I, 107 and II, 16.
Li vön radistinction to our Rājasthānī recension ( contained in the Jaina manuscript of Si and in the younger, Vaişņava
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