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

as 15 (= 415). Khaṇḍa III ends at vs. 663; Khaṇḍa IV commences with vs. 664. Verse-numbers, names of the metres, commencement of the Bhaḍāuli, stops in the Bhaḍāuli, refrains of songs, dates, and the colo- phons are rubricated. The prasasti or maṅgalācaraṇa is lost as the first folio is missing. The colophons of the Khaṇḍas are : इति श्री कान्हदे पउपइ प्रथमखंड समाप्त. ॥ १ ॥ इति द्विती खंड समाप्तः ॥ २ ॥ ॥ छ ॥ The MS is in excellent condition. The paper is thick and brownish. The handwriting is beautiful and rather large up to f. 26. Sometimes the writing is marred by haste, as on f. 32. In the last 12 folios—from f. 40–52—the writing is not uniform, nor comparable to the preceding pages in attractiveness, but it is certainly from the pen of one and the same copyist. The MS is carefully copied, accurate and preserves the old tradition faithfully. As the final colophon has not been preserved nothing definite can be known either about the copyist or the date of transcription. It appears, however, that the copyist was a Brahmanical scribe, as the script is Brahmanical Devanāgarī of the Rājasthānī type. There is no padīmātrā. From the condition of the paper, script etc. the MS may be placed in the early 17th century. Ms L also comes from the private collection of Śrī Motichandji KHAJĀNCHĪ of Bīkāner. It is fragmentary; only folios 15 to 38 are extant, of which again folio 32 is missing. Each folio measures 10" by 4.3" with margins on two sides .7" wide marked off by two fine double lines each, sometimes at a little distance from each other. The top and the bottom margins are about .5" wide. The lines per page vary from 13 to 16, the average being about 15 per page. Folios 15, 16, 18 have 13 lines per page; folios 19, 20, 23, 27–29, 34–35 have 14 lines per page; folios 17, 22, 24–26, 30–31, 36–38 have 15 lines per page. Folios 21, 33 have 16 lines per page. There are on an average 43 letters per line—varying from 37 to 48 letters per line. In the bottom of the left-hand margin of the verso side is written the folio-number, but the name of the poem is not mentioned anywhere. 4]