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NOTES AND COMMUNICATIONS MATSARANANDAvADANA The story of a miserly merchant called Nand>!', as told in Khotanese, con tained in a roll now kept in the Bibliotheque Nationale I was transliterated by H. W. Bailey in J 951.'1 R. E. Emmerick translated it into Englisb with a commentary in J970,' and gave a glossary in J973.·' Em merick drew attention to a parallel story known in Sanskrit, the N(tndiivadiina, whi ch has not yet been published. This is a story contained in a manuscript called the Avaduna-sara samuccaya (ASS) kept in the Cambridge University Library.. Though listed by C. Bendall as the third tale in the collection. the Nanda legelld is the fou.rth story there." Jllalsarananddvadana is the title of the tale as it appears in the ASS manuscript. Here, the story is narrated in �he Campti kavyil. style, in 81 verses, with ornate prose sections interspersed . .-\. metrical adaptation of the story, consisting of 191 verses, has been included ill the Ralnavadanam.alummarized as follow; . .-\. mer c h a nt called Nanda liveu in S riivasti. l3ecause of his habit of avarice, he was unable to give anything to anyone. After death, he was reborn in the womb of a candala-woll1an of defe c tive eye. Tn the course of time, that PcUio l. Colleclion 2834.6.58. Khotant!jt Buddhist text.! (Cambl'ittge Urilmlnl Series, 3), Loudon. IU51, 45-,. BSOAS , XXXlll. I, 1970, 7J-ol. 'Aua Or i lia, :xxxv, 1073, 115-::!ti. .. Jk7l! IIICII&l14criplj i,t the Ulliutniily Librar!}, ) C. BendaU, Calalofj1u. oj lhe Bluidhj(jt ::iwn Cam.bridg<. Cambridge, 1883 . .�dd. 1508, Folio. 33.-130 . • FaL 13 of A:';S which "Dould huve contt\ineu lbe ('; o i ophon of lbe:: first slory in lbc cullectivll. viz .. the .8�ipaijGaka--j6.taka. anu the bcginnlllg of lLe ne."H "wry, lbe SdrtlK!.u6.IUl.jiiluku. j;j missing. Hence Benda.Il)� error in the numbering of tbe st.ories, Il.IlU :l\so mine. ,...·hcn I ga,\'c a summary of the con ten t.:; of ASS (Ra.toa. Ha,ndul""uknlldt:, The. AuaJ£ina..>arasomuc.c.aya, Studies in Indo·A.iian Art and Cultu e, I, New Dclb.i, 197:2, 79-S9). I was ablc to identify story �o. 1 uf A.SS on eadin g a. Tokyo Inilnuscript caUed t.hc JiilakamiilcitXUiiin.lL-.:nitm (�. )Ia.tsunami, A catalogue of the Sanskrit "!11anu..s cripl3 i71 llLe Tokyo Ullluersl·ly Liurary, Tokyo, 1965, �o. 130). This manuscript cont.aill.:J lhe first. t.hrce storics of AS.s'.. < 7 )-Iataunarui, op .. cit ... ::-':0.27, cll. xxv; );0 .. 316, clio xxiv; �o. 31';, ch. ;0.;; Be::ndall. up. cit .. Add. 1592. folios l09-117h, where !.be title of !.he :itory i:-; not givcn; 0. llHlnU3cnpC in t.b� �lllions.1 Arcbivea, K8.t.hmandu, catalogue :Xu. 3·596, filmed o.s A It 7/0 under the :-;c?ali·Gcrmull ){anu8cript Preservation ProjocL; Lae microlicho copy No. L}IHJ·OOO.-I97·1/1 )IBB(II).IU72.4il of the Institute for Advanced Studies of \Vorld Religions, 'New York. a(so contains this vorS;o!l of the NandtilladC.lIa. a �Iatsun8.wi, No. 170, ch. xx .. • Tho foUowing scggcstiond for cfUlJnding tho !..eXt given by Erulllcrick can bl! Illude::, bo.dcd 01\.0- compo.rative st.udy of the IHnnuscript.3 refcrrcci to abov�. The numbers refer t.o Emmcrick's footnotes. to, read prasu.tii for pra.J'I1; ;;OIIIJ..::u;ilOllfjad co for SH',lkucita·t]iiITlls; n.o.ir/;dyopahataO for lIairi'dapa..h.aJao; l�, salim oJsflnapnr(-)L'Glilidivnrj ital!! for .;IUlUI.1l. n.Sa.I1([prauanadaivrjitii, !�:. 13, w7).Qiila·ciO.rako fur CaTiIJl/lu":. kha7)dll.mu.llaknl!1 for i.:IwILdam cuJ.huuk(ll.n; yucchid,jnil!� for gache.dii nil!l; 14. "nipanu-bhiilu.1fl foJ' o"iputIL.bhlit(llll; rlllhy,j.rel)"" iOt, ru1h!Jci.l;tu.m'�; 15. alak�miJ.:am for na {(f.J.:�miJ..:aol. 1
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passion, sat on a thousand-petaUed lotus, the si�e of a chariot-wheel, sprung from the power of his merit. its scent pouring forth from the ripe uing of unfading
virtue: and (He) instr ucted that Candana." ' Nanda. your father . w ho acquir;e4. this wealth. his body covered with sweat. and who protected it in n. niggaraIy manner. he does indeed consume the bitter fruits ar i sen from the poisonous tree of av arice .' o This person of im pure mind will go again from th i s place to an evil state. a receptacle of defenceless fear. where l ive many misers,
fully resigned. their bod ies reduced to bits by flamiog fires. " Seeing this circumstance, a re fl ection of the darkness of ignorance . which causes grief to
friends, wh at man. wandering along the road of saql�ra. w ould not cut up . IUs own limbs. and distribute the flesh 1 " Hearing the words of (the B udd h a) . the kinsman of the world, and seeing that great misfortune of Nanda, that multitude dispeUed the darkness of avarice f r o m (their) minds and multiplied acts of v i r tue , like giving." R,\T�-' HANDUllUKANDE 11
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