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

26 KĀNHADADE PRABANDHA Deleting a letter is made as usual by marking two small upward strokes on the head-line or top of the letter (f. 16 recto, l. 1 ; f. 18 verso, ll. 8, 9). Sometimes a headline is not formed which also indicates deletion. If a number of words are to be deleted they are placed within two curved lines not unlike modern brackets (f. 16 recto, l. 2; f. 30 verso, ll. 9-10). The addition of a letter, left out in the text, is made sometimes in the side-margin (folio 21 verso, ll. 7, 11) and sometimes above the line in small hands (f. 25 l. 8) when several letters are to be thus added, the addition is made in small hand in the top-margin flanked by a cross on each side, and the place of addition is indicated by a cross resembling a kākapada (f. 25 recto top-margin). The numbering of the verses is irregular. Sometimes two verses, sometimes even four verses are numbered as one. After II 142 the numbering is regular up to the end of Khaṇḍa II (the last verse of Khaṇḍa II is numbered as 55) The verse-numbers being continuous, the first verse of Khaṇḍa III is marked as 56. Otherwise the numbering is again regular : vs III 47 is numbered as 300; vs III 151 is numbered as 400; vs III 250 is numbered as 500. Khaṇḍa III ends at 501; so the first verse of Khaṇḍa IV is numbered as 502; IV 98 is numbered as 600, IV 200 is numbered as 700; vs. IV 299 is numbered as (7)97 (the next three verses have remained unnumbered), and the last verse in the ms (folio 38 verso, l. 15)—IV 342—is numbered as (8)40 The folio numbers, refrains, the verse-endings and verse-numbers, names of metres, Bhaḍāualis, the beginnings of Khaṇḍas and the colo- phons are all rubricated. The colophons are . इति राजा श्री कान्हडदे द्वितीय पंड समाप्त. ॥ इति राजा श्री कान्हडदे तृतीय स्वर्ग समाप्त ॥ The final colophon has not come down as the ᴍs is fragmentary. The ᴍs is fairly well-preserved, but the paper being thin and of an inferior quality the edges crumble away when handled. The copyist is a professional scribe and appears to be Rājasthānī, both from the script and the pronounced Rājasthānī character of several words. He is not a scholar, which accounts for the lapses in copying. The script is Devanāgarī of the Rājasthānī type, and frequently resorts to pṛṣṭhamātrā, which, however is not uniformly adopted as in ms c. The handwriting is an excellent specimen of Old Western Rājasthānī pen- manship. The ms is important as preserving a purely Rājasthānī version of the poem. From the condition of the ms and the style of