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The Nanda Couplet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

Alfred Master
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The Nanda couplet occurs in the Legend of Sthūlabhadra, which relates to the time of the Nine Nandas, who preceded Candragupta the Maurya. This Legend is recounted by Hemacandra in his Sthavirāvalī Carita, and Jacobi has made a full English abstract of it in his Bibl. Ind. edition of the work (p. 50 foll.). L. Alsdorf has given an account of this Legend in German (Kumārapāla Pratibodha, p. 19 foll.) to accompany the Apabhraṃśa version of his text and in an Appendix has supplemented it with extracts from other works on the subject. The couplet is recorded in Skt., Pkt., Apa., and Gujarati; and as most of the versions can be dated, they are of great linguistic interest. Their value would be still greater if the unknown element of copyists’ errors and emendations could be eliminated. Those which can be detected will be noticed in due course.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , October 1940 , pp. 657 - 665
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1940

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page 658 note 1 Smith, Vincent (Oxf. Hist. Ind. 2, p. 57)Google Scholar is not sure whether Nanda was a Jain or Buddhist. Charpentier, J. (Camb. Hist. Ind., i, p. 164)Google Scholar hints that the Nanda kings may have favoured Jainism. The Jain tradition is clear that Udāyin, the predecessor of the Nandas, was a Jain and that the chief ministers of the Nandas were all of the family of Kalpaka, who was a Brahman converted to Jainism.

page 658 note 2 For ease of scansion all syllables except those long by position are marked for quantity.

page 669 note 1 Also duhayaṃ in the line before the dūhā, GOS., xiv, p. 69.Google Scholar

page 662 note 1 The same process occurs in the instrumental-locative of nouns and pronouns.

page 664 note 1 A note on this MS. is being published in the current number of the JRAS.

page 664 note 2 This was possibly a later stage in the development of this inflexion.