Kuśopadeśa(nītisāra)

A nītiśāstra text in three aṣṭakas, each aṣṭaka containing eight ślokas (poems), was composed by a certain Aṅgadākumāra. In the text, Kuśa, the son of Rāma, was addressed by Sugrīva, Tārā, and Aṅgada. This manuscript contains all three aṣṭakas, and it seems that it has a commentary in Newari. Haraprasad Shastri mentioned a manuscript titled Kuśopadeśaṭīkā in A Catalogue of Palm-Leaf and Selected Paper MSS. Belonging to the Durbar Library, Nepal (1905), in which he wrote that it is a commentary on Kuśopadeśa, allegedly written by the Buddhist Vajrācārya Bāndhavasena, who belonged to the Mahāvihāra to the east of Kāṣṭhamaṇḍapa (Kathmandu), written in Nepālākṣarā (Newari) characters and dated to 1524 CE. In this manuscript, the first chapter, Sugrīvāṣṭaka, ends on folio 49a, the second chapter, Tārādevyāślokāṣṭaka, ends on folio 76a, and the final chapter, Aṅgadākumāropadeśa, ends on folio 95a.