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# Nagananda 1.8

Nāgānanda 1.8

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda.1.8)

nyāyye vartmani yojitāḥ prakṛtayaḥ santaḥ sukhaṃ sthāpitā  
nīto bandhujanastathātmasamatāṃ rājye ca rakṣā kṛtā /  
datto dattamanorathādhikaphalaḥ kalpadrumo 'pyarthine  
kiṃ karttavyamataḥ paraṃ kathaya vā yatte sthitaṃ cetasi //

> Jímútaváhana (smiling).  
> O friend, has not all that should have been done, been done? See here. My subjects are placed in the right path; the virtuous are happy; my relatives are placed on an equality with myself, and a regency is made in the kingdom; to the poor man a tree of Paradise has been given, whose fruit gives even more than he wishes for. Say, what more than this should be done? or what remains in your mind?  
> — Palmer Boyd 1872, Nágánanda, or The Joy of the Snake-World

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## Translations (1)

- [Nágánanda, or The Joy of the Snake-World](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda~en-boyd.1.p7) — Palmer Boyd 1872, English

## Linked texts (2)

- [Nāgānandanāṭaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana.nataka.naganandanataka.1.12) — Sanskrit
- [Nāgānanda](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.purana.nagananda.1.7) — Harṣa, Sanskrit

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