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This manuscript contains two different texts. The first is Āryaśūra's Jātakamālā, a Buddhist text written in prose and verses; this style is known as campū kāvya. The author of the text is Āryaśūra, who belonged to the late 3rd or early 4th century. This text describes the previous lives of the Buddha, as the Jātaka texts do. Therefore, this text can also be categorized as a Jātaka text. The second text contains a few chapters from Bhadrakalpāvadāna, a Buddhist text written in dialogue between Aśoka and Upagupta, in 38 adhyāyas (related to the Vinayapiṭaka) (NCC, Vol. 16, p. 126). Matsunami stated that "Jātaka-mālāvadāna-sūtra (Śrī-bhagavataḥ śākyasiṃhasya °), being an enlargement of the Jātakamālā with 20 Jātaka tales of Buddha and a chapter of Bhikṣu's" (Matsunami, 1965, p. 58). The first text ends on folio 164b (the scribe wrongly numbered 164 twice).
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