Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v3.c41.s1.12
Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v3.c41.s1.12
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We may thus, without hesitation, adopt the date 351, or A.D. 295, for the period of Raja Nal, whose history is one of the grand sources of delight to the bards of Rajputana. The poem rehearsing his adventures under the title of Nala and Damayanti (fam. Nal-Daman) was translated into Persian at Akbar’s command, by Faizi, brother of Abu-l Fazl, and has since been made known to the admirers of Sanskrit literature by Professor Bopp of Berlin [Āīn, i. 106 ; Macdonell, Hist. Sanskrit Literature, 296 ff.].