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Source: academia.edu: Tessitori Collection I

Mādhavānalakāmakandalākathā (माधवानलकामकन्दलाकथा) is the name of a work narrating stories from Jain literature.—The Mādhavānalakāmakandalākathā (in Sanskrit and Prakrit, verse and prose) is included in the collection of manuscripts at the ‘Vincenzo Joppi’ library, collected by Luigi Pio Tessitori during his visit to Rajasthan between 1914 and 1919.—Background story:—Mādhavānala was a well-born, handsome and talented musician in puṣpavatī. As all the women lost their minds because of him, including those in the palace, the king banished him. During his travels he reached Kāmavatī where a dancing girl Kāmakandalā gave a superb show. [...] This manuscript of the Mādhavānalakāmakandalākathā has been described in the Jain section although it has no Jain tone, but Jain authors have indeed laid their hands on this narrative as well. In addition, it has been decided to restrict the Sanskrit sub-section of the non-Jain chapter in this catalogue to clearly hindu texts.

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Jainism is an Indian religion of Dharma whose doctrine revolves around harmlessness (ahimsa) towards every living being. The two major branches (Digambara and Svetambara) of Jainism stimulate self-control (or, shramana, ‘self-reliance’) and spiritual development through a path of peace for the soul to progess to the ultimate goal.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum

1) Mādhavānalakāmakandalākathā (माधवानलकामकन्दलाकथा) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—or simply mādhavānala an insipid love-story. Io. 1715. Oxf. 157^b. L. 82. 724. Pheh. 5. Rādh. 45. Np. V, 186. Burnell. 160^b. H. 112.
—by Ānanda or Ānandadhara. Io. 2206. Oxf. 157^b. Bhr. 154. 155. Peters. 3, 395. Bühler 540.
—by Kanakasundara. Oudh. V, 6.

2) Mādhavānalakāmakandalākathā (माधवानलकामकन्दलाकथा):—or shortened mādhavānala a romance. Io. 1238. 1715. 2206. Brit. Mus. 3353. Fl. 101. 102. 453. Stein 81.

3) Mādhavānalakāmakandalākathā (माधवानलकामकन्दलाकथा):—As p. 144 (3 Mss.). Peters. 5, 429.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Mādhavānalakāmakandalakathā (माधवानलकामकन्दलकथा):—[=mādhavānala-kāma-kandala-kathā] [from mādhavānala > mādhava] f. idem

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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Partial matches: Katha, Madhavanalakamakandala, Katta, Kata.

Full-text: Madhavanalakamakandala.

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