कान्हड़दे प्रबन्ध (कवि पद्मनाभ - जालोर चौहान वीरगाथा, अलाउद्दीन खिलजी से युद्ध व जौहर इतिहास)

INTRODUCTION 3 (4) the ᴍꜱ (dated v. s. 1930), which Dr. BÜHLER got copied and sent to Navalrām (designated as घ); (5) a recent ᴍꜱ containing the first 150 verses of the Kānhaḍade Prabandha, copied out by some cāraṇa (bard) for his personal use (designated as च). Of these ᴍꜱꜱ क and घ are identical, क being printed verbatim from the घ ᴍꜱ. ख and घ both come from Tharād and both have a big common lacuna¹. It can, therefore, be presumed that both are identical, ख representing the original ᴍꜱ from which the copy घ was prepared at the instance of Dr. BUHLER. Of the remaining ᴍꜱꜱ ग represents another manuscript-tradition, while च is fragmentary and is very modern. From these ᴍꜱꜱ DERĀSARĪ prepared his text. But according to the practice then prevalent among Gujarati scholars, when Old Guja- rātī studies were in their infancy, the editor did not base his collation on any