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

12 KĀNHAḌADE PRABANDHA When a letter is to be deleted, its head-line is crossed by two small upward strokes,¹ or, occasionally, the head-line of the letter is just omitted. If, however, several letters or words are to be deleted, they are rounded off by a line or sometimes placed between two brackets and rubricated². If a letter or word is omitted, the addition is made in fine hand just above the place of omission³ Sometimes, the copyist has written the meaning of the word in small hand just above the word⁴. Refrains of songs and the recurring caraṇa occurring in several verses are usually abbreviated⁵. There are no marginalia except in IV 293 where in the margin is written : १३६८ वैशाख. The numbering of verses is regular up to I 38 ; after that two verses and sometimes even four verses are numbered as one up to I 147. Here the numbering becomes regular once again till the end of the first Khaṇḍa, though occasionally a verse is left unnumbered. In

INTRODUCTION 13 The script is Brahmanical Devanāgarī of the Rājasthānī type. The handwriting is firm and bold and is uniform throughout the Kānhadade Prabandha, but comparatively thinner in the Raṇamalla- chanda, and thicker in the Karpaṭīlāvilāsa. The difference was perhaps due to the use of different pens. Some of the interspersed medical formulae appear, from their broad, immature, irregular writing, to have been copied by some one else, perhaps by a young student, who was just learning to write. The paper is thick and the ms is well-preserved. The absence of a detailed colophon, the inclusion of several works, along with information for personal use, in the same ms, may perhaps be taken to indicate that the copyist was also the owner, who wrote out the poem for his personal use. That he was a learned man, perhaps a scholar, is evident from the careful transmission of the text. Ms C comes from the manuscript-collection of the Jñāna Bhaṇḍāra of Anantanāthjī's temple, Bombay. It consists of 34 folios, each measuring 9.5" by 4.25". It has margins on the two sides marked off by two double lines. The right-hand margin is usually 1" wide, while the left-hand side margin is usually .8" wide. The upper and lower margins are, generally, .45" wide. The first 5 folios have 14 lines per page. The rest of the folios have 15 lines per page, except the last (f. 34 recto) which has 11 lines only. The number of letters per line in the complete lines above and below the svastika varies from about 38 to 46, the average being about 42 letters per line. On the verso sides in the margins of the left-hand side is written the title कान्हडदे० (in folios 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 17, 21, 24, 27, 31, 33); or कान्हडे पुप (in folio 20); or कान्हडदे प्र० (folios 14, 15). On the remaining pages the title appears as कान्हडडे पु०. In the right-hand margins at the bottom the number of the folio is written. A small vertical stroke or sometimes two strokes cutting the headline (folio 5 verso, l. 13) indicates that the letter is deleted (folio 4 verso, l. 9). Marginal addenda are very few indeed. At only one place (f. 24 recto, l. 14) one letter (पु) has become illegible; two small dashes one above the other are marked just above it, and in the right-hand margin the letter is written with the same

14 KĀNHADADE PRABANDHA mark (=) to show that it is to be inserted at the place where a similar mark appears above the line. Again on folio 30 verso l. 9 where a word is left out in the writing, its place is indicated by a cross above the line, and the word (सवे) is written in the left-hand margin, along with the cross. On folio 31 verso l. 11 where f (the vowel i) is left out, two curved strokes above and below the letter are marked instead. The numbering of verses is absolutely regular throughout the entire poem. Verse-numbers are always rubricated. The names of metres, colophons of Khaṇḍas, dates of events are also usually rubricated. The praśasti reads : ॥ ६० ॥ श्री गुरुभ्यो नमः । श्री शारदायै नमः । The colophons are : इति श्री कांहडदेकथायां प्रथमखंडमध्ये गुजराती सोरठ द्विदेश बंद नवलाप सोमईउ देव लेई गडि जालहुर पासि शिरोंणि दल आव्यां कान्हडदे झीला अधिकारे प्रथम पंड. । इति श्री कान्हुडदे द्वितीय खंड समाप्तः द्वितीयमध्ये अलावदीन पातसाहि नाहर मलिक मोकल्या ते समीआणे गडरोहु करिउ सांतलसी चहूआंण भडी भागु पातसाहि समीआणो गढ लीधु बीजि पंडि १५८ गाथा ॥ इति श्रीकान्हडदे तृतीयखंड संपूर्ण तृतीय पंड मध्ये बाहडमेर मीनमालभंग पातसाइ जाल्हुरि आगम मुंगलभंग पातसाइ दीलीचलन समसखान हरमसहित बंदिकरण सीताई गडि आगम बंछछोडनं वीवाह- वातवर्णनं पंड ३ गाथा २३९ ॥ इति कान्हडदे चहुआण चतुर्थ गंड सपूर्णम् चतुर्थ संड मध्ये जाल्हुरि गडरोहु वर्ष ८ संवत् १३६८ गढभंग पश्चात् अलावदीन कान्हडदे पठी मास ८ अलावदीनमृत्यु तिहार पछी संवत् १५१२ पद्मनाभ पंडित रास उद्धरता सं० १७११ वर्षे कार्तिक वदि १४ सोमे । The ms is exceedingly well preserved, as will appear from the facsimile. The paper is thick, light brownish in colour, and so well- preserved that even the fibres in its texture are visible. In the left- hand margins insects have bored holes, some of which have been repaired by pasting strips of the same kind of paper, so that the damage is not noticeable. But the text has in no way suffered on account of this The ink is shining black, giving a glossy appearance to the writing. The script is Jaina Devanāgarī, with the paḍimātrā. The style of writing is exceedingly beautiful and can be ranked as one of the finest specimens of Old Western Rājasthānī calligraphy. There are hardly any corrections in the ms — even signs for ā and ī follow- ing a consonant which are likely to be interchanged are all meti- culously though spontaneously differentiated. The brief colophon at the end of the ms gives the date of copying only—v. s. 1711. The

राजस्थान पुरातन ग्रन्थमाला कान्हडदे प्रबन्ध

तदूतणीकरतिवरवणी स्रीभंवतन०नरुधुईंथी मार मार मार माड सामहं सामसार जाउंकरणं चघणउ नगरथरी महुकफक्तविलीछिकरी. एउं एकविलेते नर मोडलितिहंतणा मसिउः ऊतलेति नि फ्तललेि दिणदिंन पंमोतेलिउरंगगंगसमान एउं विहफललेऊडतपकी विउली जेफल ऊरमददानी मिली जेफल सयरवचन गुंमांण तेफल ऊरुसंमातलि विगूयण. सुरि तेफल ऊरुतपसीश्वर त्रिंफक्त सबीदागसाद तिफलऊरुगयाप्रयागि गढ़साधुर कान्हडदे गंजि. शूं तेन तंगायणचीवनिहि जेहन क्रूदानअरुपंधी जेफल वारि माइसिमता नि फल ऊरुमलायां मसरी दू कान्हरूचरियकानानं वनि विरुदवरितिक्खउ येषुणि तरवरूवलि वि भं री चक्रयागजडिलिकारितिराणी फतुश्रास कवित्त मति करी ऊलयुगाकमोत्र लिनवू वि च अर्थखूसंमसर्माम्- यतुर्थखंडनमाध्मा जशुशो॥ सविमजनतनणी ॥ इति कान्हडदेचरित्राए... चं जीवीदीन का झकणदिवशी मास्ट सुला वदीनम् रटऊरूपदे संवताह६ घटंन पवातंब्रू सं० १५०॥ वर्षे का हिंकृवदिव थमाम् ण्ड तिसरपढी संवत् १४५२ पदमनावणंसित्तन मसंडरता

Last page (folio 34, recto) of the O ms.

16 KĀNHAḌADE PRABANDHA In making a correction, the wrong letter is painted out white, and the correct letter is written thereon.¹ On folio 9 verso line 14 i (i-vowel) written in place of ī (ī vowel) through mistake is written over with red ink. Marginalia are few indeed. On folio 7 recto and folio 15 recto l. 11, where a letter is left out in the text, the addition is made in the left-hand side margin, with a kākapada in the line indicating the proper place where the letter is to be inserted. There is a marginal note in the right-hand margin of f. 25 verso, where the copyist has made a note that “as f. 27 of the original is missing it could not be copied.” The numbering of verses is quite regular in Khaṇḍas I, II, III. But in Khaṇḍa IV, after vs 307, which is numbered as 80 (= vs 280) in the ms, the next verse is numbered as 300, while the last verse is numbered as 45 (= vs 345). Neither the verse-numbers nor the colophons are rubricated; instead, after every quarter of the verse, a vertical stroke in red ink is made, and at the end of every verse two strokes in red ink, one before the verse-number and one after it, are made. The end of a Khaṇḍa is marked with a colophon followed by the number of the Khaṇḍa in figures and two or more vertical strokes in black and red. The colophons are as follows :- इति कान्हडदे चतुर्बंधंड प्रथमखंड समाप्तंः । इति कान्हडदे चतुर्बंधंड द्वितियखंड समातं ॥ २ ॥ इति कान्हडदे तृतियखंड संपूर्णं ॥ ३ ॥ इति कान्हडे प्रबंध चतुर्थखंड समाप्तं ॥ The final colophon reads :— हीं² सं. १९ । ३० माहा शुद २ वार भोमे । ऋषभप्रसादात् गां । डीसानगरे । सं । पं । कल्याण- विजयजी तत । शीष्य मुं । मोतिचंद । मये पं । दयाविजयजी चोमासे कृत्वा । ५ मी वसंत । As the ms is a recent one it is quite well-preserved. The copyist is a Jaina scribe named Motichand, who copied the poem at Deesa, North Gujarat, in v. s. 1930, Māgh Śukla 2nd, Tuesday. His handwriting is clear and bold, as a professional scribe's would be. He appears to have deciphered the original fairly correctly and copied it ¹ Cf. f. 8 recto l. 14 ; f. 9 recto l. 2, f 12 recto l. 15. ² ॐ which marks the beginning of Khaṇḍa IV is written in red ink. Similarly ॥ in the colophon on Khaṇḍa IV is written in red ink.

INTRODUCTION 15 absence of the copyist's name perhaps indicates that the ms was copied by the owner himself, who, both from the style of writing and textual emendations, appears to be a scholar of Gujarātī, Rājasthānī and Sanskrit. He is likely to have been a Jaina. The traditional svastika or ornamental blank space is found in the centre in all the pages. It is a survival of the style of writing on palm-leaf, where space had to be kept blank in the middle of the page for a hole through which the string was passed. The only other mss used in this edition which have a svastika are E and K.¹ Ms D, No. 239 of 1873–74, in the manuscript-collection of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, comes from a Jaina Bhaṇḍāra in Tharad.² This is the ms that Dr. BUHLER got copied out and sent to Navalrām PANDYA for publication in the Śālāpatra. It has 29 folios, each measuring 11.2″ by 5.1″. It has margins .9″ wide on both sides, marked off by a thick double-line in red and a small margin of .45″ above and below. The right and left extremities of the folio are also marked with a broad red line. The ms starts on folio 1 recto—the maṅgalācaraṇa or praśasti being ॥ एदं० ॥ श्री गणेशाय नमः । and ends on folio 29 verso. There is a big lacuna on f. 25 verso, where the copyist has left the last six lines blank and made a remark in the bottom of the left-hand margin that “as f. 27 of the original is missing, it could not be copied”.³ On the verso sides, the folio-number is written both in the left-hand margins at the top and in the right-hand margins at the bottom. The title of the poem is not written anywhere Folio 1 has 16 lines per page; folios 4, 5, 6, 9, 10 have 18 lines per page. All the other folios have 17 lines per page, except folio 25 verso which has only 11, and folio 29 (last folio) which has 19 lines on the recto side, and 16 lines on the verso side. There are usually 38 to 49 letters per line, or 43 letters per line on an average. If a letter is inadvertently omitted it is added just above its appropriate place in small hands. If ि (sign for short i) is left out, two curved strokes, one on the upper side and the other on the lower side of the consonant are marked to indicate it.⁴ ¹ Only folios 2-7 in E have a svastika, the remaining folios are without it. ² There is a note to this effect on the label pasted on the cloth-wrapper of the ms. ³ Thus vss IV 176–IV 206 are lost in the D ms ⁴ Cf. f. 12 verso l. 13, f. 13 verso l. 8.

राजस्थान पुरातन ग्रन्थमाला कान्हडदे प्रबन्ध Folio 24 verso of the B MS

INTRODUCTION 15 absence of the copyist's name perhaps indicates that the ms was copied by the owner himself, who, both from the style of writing and textual emendations, appears to be a scholar of Gujarātī, Rājasthānī and Sanskrit. He is likely to have been a Jaina. The traditional svastika or ornamental blank space is found in the centre in all the pages. It is a survival of the style of writing on palm-leaf, where space had to be kept blank in the middle of the page for a hole through which the string was passed. The only other mss used in this edition which have a svastika are E and K.¹ Ms D, No. 239 of 1873-74, in the manuscript-collection of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, comes from a Jaina Bhaṇḍāra in Tharad.² This is the ms that Dr. BÜHLER got copied out and sent to Navalrām PANDYĀ for publication in the Śālāpatra. It has 29 folios, each measuring 11.2" by 5.1". It has margins .9" wide on both sides, marked off by a thick double-line in red and a small margin of .45" above and below. The right and left extremities of the folio are also marked with a broad red line. The ms starts on folio 1 recto—the maṅgalācaraṇa or praśasti being ॥ एं० ॥ श्री गणेशाय नमः । and ends on folio 29 verso. There is a big lacuna on f. 25 verso, where the copyist has left the last six lines blank and made a remark in the bottom of the left-hand margin that "as f. 27 of the original is missing, it could not be copied".³ On the verso sides, the folio-number is written both in the left-hand margins at the top and in the right-hand margins at the bottom. The title of the poem is not written anywhere Folio 1 has 16 lines per page, folios 4, 5, 6, 9, 10 have 18 lines per page. All the other folios have 17 lines per page, except folio 25 verso which has only 11, and folio 29 (last folio) which has 19 lines on the recto side, and 16 lines on the verso side. There are usually 38 to 49 letters per line, or 43 letters per line on an average. If a letter is inadvertently omitted it is added just above its appropriate place in small hands. If ि (sign for short i) is left out, two curved strokes, one on the upper side and the other on the lower side of the consonant are marked to indicate it.⁴ ¹ Only folios 2-7 in K have a svastika, the remaining folios are without it. ² There is a note to this effect on the label pasted on the cloth-wrapper of the ms. ³ Thus vss IV 176.-IV 206 are lost in the D ms. ⁴ Cf. f 12 verso l. 13, f. 13 verso l. 8.

16 KĀNHAḌADE PRABANDHA In making a correction, the wrong letter is painted out white, and the correct letter is written thereon.¹ On folio 9 verso line 14 ि (i-vowel) written in place of ी (ī vowel) through mistake is written over with red ink. Marginalia are few indeed. On folio 7 recto and folio 15 recto l. 11, where a letter is left out in the text, the addition is made in the left-hand side margin, with a kākapada in the line indicating the proper place where the letter is to be inserted. There is a marginal note in the right-hand margin of f. 25 verso, where the copyist has made a note that "as f. 27 of the original is missing it could not be copied." The numbering of verses is quite regular in Khaṇḍas I, II, III. But in Khaṇḍa IV, after vs 307, which is numbered as 80 (= vs 280) in the MS, the next verse is numbered as 300, while the last verse is numbered as 45 (= vs 345). Neither the verse-numbers nor the colophons are rubricated; instead, after every quarter of the verse, a vertical stroke in red ink is made, and at the end of every verse two strokes in red ink, one before the verse-number and one after it, are made. The end of a Khaṇḍa is marked with a colophon followed by the number of the Khaṇḍa in figures and two or more vertical strokes in black and red. The colophons are as follows :- इति कान्हडदे चतुर्थखंड प्रथमखंड समाप्तं । इति कान्हडदे चतुर्थखंड द्वितियखंड समातं ॥ २ ॥ इति कान्हडदे तृतियखंड संपूर्णं ॥ ३ ॥ इति कान्हडे प्रबंध चतुर्थखंड समाप्तं ॥ The final colophon reads :- हीं² स.। १९ । ३० माहा शूद २ वार भोमे । ऋषभप्रशादात् शां । डीसानगरे । लें। पं। कल्याण- विजयजी तत । शीष्य मुं। मोतिचंद । मयें पं। दयाविजयजी चतुर्मासे कृत्या । ५ मी वसंत । As the MS is a recent one it is quite well-preserved. The copyist is a Jaina scribe named Motichand, who copied the poem at Deesa, North Gujarat, in v. s. 1930, Māgh Śukla 2nd, Tuesday. His handwriting is clear and bold, as a professional scribe's would be. He appears to have deciphered the original fairly correctly and copied it ¹ Cf. f. 8 recto l. 14, f. 9 recto l. 2, f. 12 recto l. 15. ² ॐ which marks the beginning of Khaṇḍa IV is written in red ink. Similarly हीं in the colophon on Khaṇḍa IV is written in red ink.

INTRODUCTION 17 out with care. It appears that the original was written in the tradi- tional Devanāgarī style with paḍimātrā, which has been properly transcribed in modern Devanāgarī. Only at rare places the scribe has mistaken the paḍimātrā for the ā-stroke of the preceding letter. An interesting feature of the writing is the separation of the ा or ि (ā or i) sign from the preceding consonant when the latter touches the margin. At one place (f. 29 verso) the scribe has written वि in a peculiar way—the ि mark written in l. 4 (last letter), and the letter व in the succeeding line—l. 5 (first letter). The comparative accuracy of this ms and the stage of language it shows suggest that its original was an old and accurate manuscript. But it seems to have suffered when the copy was made. It is possible that the scribe has inserted anusvāras, which did not exist in the original. ms D being only a recent transcript of an old ms, it is not reproduced in facsimile. Ms E is a fragmentary ms¹, originally belonging to the late Dewan Bahadur K. H. Dhruva, now in the possession of the Gujarāt Vidyā Sabhā, Ahmedabad. As it is incomplete and its colophon has not come down, details about its date and the copyist are lacking. However, from the condi- tion of the manuscript, as well as the style of writing, it can be presumed that the ms is at least as old as the B ms or perhaps even a little older. The fragment consists of 9 folios in all—folios 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 21, 22, 23, 24. Folios 4-9 measure 10.2" by 4.5" with margins .7" wide on both sides and 5" at the top and the bottom Folios 21-24 measure 9" by 4" with margins .5" wide on both sides and .25" above and below. The margins are marked out by three or more lines in red and black. In the left-hand margins of the verso side are written numbers of folios, but except on folio 22 verso left-hand margin where at the top is written कान्हडदे २२, nowhere is the title of the poem mentioned. Folios 22, 23, 24 leave blank space in the middle to form a svastika. Folios 4-9 have on an average about 16 lines per page; while folios 21-24 have about 18 lines per page. Folio 24 has 20 lines on both sides. ¹ ms E extends from I 83–I 140, I 167–I 242, III 175–IV 61 ‡

18 KĀNHAḌADE PRABANDHA Folios 4-9 have an average of 40 letters per line; while folios 21-24 have about 46 letters per line. In the extant folios there are hardly any corrections or addi- tions, marginal or otherwise. The numbering of verses is regular up to the Bhaḍaūlī of Khaṇḍa I; after which the numbering starts again with 1 (verse 192 being numbered as vs 1 and so on). The numbering of verses is again regular fram Khaṇḍa III up to the verse 61 in Khaṇḍa IV. The verse-numbers, the names of the metres and the svastika on folios 22, 23 are rubricated. On folios 23, 24 the colophon is writ- ten in red or rather saffron-coloured ink, so also the verse-numbers and names of metres. There is only one colophon—that at the end of Khaṇḍa III which reads ॥ छ ॥ इति श्री सोनिगिराबंसै श्रीकृष्णचरित्रे तृतीयखंड ॥ धी ॥ The script is Brahmanical Devanāgarī of the Rājasthānī type, without paḍimātrā, and might belong to circa 17th century. The copyist might have been a Brahmanical scribe of Mārwāḍ. The manuscript has suffered very much from lack of proper pre- servation. Its edges have crumbled away and insects have bored holes in the sides. The manuscript is quite old and accurate, and has been very helpful in the restoration of the text Ms F is one of the two fragmentary mss that were sent to me by Muni Śrī PUṆYAVIJAYAJI from his personal collection at Pāṭan. It has 8 folios in all, of which folio 4 is missing.¹ The folios measure 10.4" by 4 4". There are margins on two sides about .5" to .6" wide, and a small margin of .4" to .5" above and below. Triple lines in red mark off the margins. Some of the side-margins are eaten up by insects. Page numbers are noted on the verso side, right-hand margin, bottom The title of the poem is not written anywhere. The manuscript commences on folio 1 verso and ends on folio 8 verso There are 12 lines per page. Each line has 41 letters on an average. ¹ MS F extends from I 1-I 61, and I 87-I 181

[शीर्षक / पृष्ठ-परिचय] राजस्थान पुरातन ग्रन्थमाला | कान्हडदे प्रबन्ध

[पाण्डुलिपि पाठ : प्रथम पृष्ठ (Folio 1 Verso)]

॥ए णं॥ गोरीनंदन नीत नवौ ब्रह्मसुता सरसति। सारदवीणास्रुतिकरुं वाचउमल्ल निर्मलमति॥१॥ आदियु- ग अवधारि हिया। दंतजलजयवंता असुरवधोत्री निकंददाता जुगसुरसंता। किंतारणि जिनमत जन्म गाहं ति- णि लघीयउ। वासेदेवधुरिदीत जिनिसंपाउमतेरीउ॥२॥ त्रपद तत णघट्टि टुक कविवाणी वचन सुचंगा। रुति सेति सिरी तणी॥ तिउअरीसुचि गीअ जालउ हरुउ दलिताणि दिस सामंत सीसुत ते अतासत एण पुण की- धूं कीरति कान्हडदे तणी। नवकोटी नांनि तिम तांणिऽसामइ आविहि धण देसाधण कणग भरितावकहितणि डाफाया उकणि सुइयदेवा॥३॥ दूहा॥ एक पाय वलनगिराणि श्श्राग तिणि तणुणं वाविलित तहा इरालग

... चीतंगद हार सुभणी मांस वंध भकत अमर वारमंल"

Line 11: "ली गोरा गुं मियन वं तू हव कुंभर बोल हुं गल कम्प मंधू तरु श्री नारायण की तु पुहाव पास्त वयं १४ रा क्स" Wait: after मंधू तरु: "श्री नारायण कीतु पुहाव पास्त वयं १४ राक्स" (or १३ somewhere?) Wait, look at line 10/11: Verse 12 is in line 10 ("१२"). In line 11: is there १३? Look at "मंधू तरु": between मंधू and तरु is there a १३? Wait: "मंधू तरु श्री नारायण कीतु" - wait, there is "१३" or "तरु"? Let's check: "मंधू १३ श्री नारायण कीतु"? Wait, look at that word: "मंधू" then "१३" - ah! It looks like "१३" or "तरु"! Wait, looking closely: it's "१३" with a stroke! Yes, 13! Then "श्री नारायण कीतु पुहाव पास्त वयं १४ राक्स"

Line 12: "विजो ल्हिला रुप सो ह नि विहंग राज रुदिय र प्य फणि परू श्रंगान चरण १५ युपद निरि अव व मरि

INTRODUCTION 19 The noteworthy feature of the manuscript is that lines are written in red and black alternately—one line in red, one in black as on folio 1 verso, folio 2 etc. Sometimes there are two lines in black alternating with two lines in red (as on folio 3 recto). Often there are 3 lines in black, alternating with 3 lines in red (as on folio 5 verso). Verse-numbers are written in the same ink in which the line is written. There are no marginal corrections. On folio 5 recto the verse number—64—is added in the margin. In the text itself if a letter or two are to be deleted the headline is crossed with two or three small vertical strokes (folio 7 recto, ll. 1, 7; f. 2 verso l. 10). If a letter is to be added the addition is made above its proper place in small hands (f. 2 verso, l. 9). If words are to be transposed a number is given above the word indicating their proper sequence (folio 3 verso l. 1). The ᴍs is on the whole very clear and accurate. The numbering of verses is correct up to verse I 35; after that two verses are numbered as one, with the result that vs I 181, where the manuscript concludes, is numbered as 107. The praśasti or maṅgalācaraṇa is simply ॐ; and there is no colophon, as the manuscript is only a fragment. The script is exceedingly clear, bold and beautiful, approaching the C ᴍs in its penmanship. The script is similar to the Jaina Devanāgarī, but without padimātrā. The writing is rather larger than usual, and is slanting towards the right. It appears from the manuscript that the copyist was a professional one, who must have had considerable experience of copying Jaina manuscripts, though he himself might have been a Brahmanical scribe. The manuscript is fairly well preserved and the paper used is of medium thickness. About one-third of the page towards the right shows signs of damage from exposure to moisture. From the condition of the manuscript and the state of lang- uage it preserves it may be assumed to be quite old, belonging almost to the same period as ᴍs ʙ or ᴇ. The manuscript is very reliable and has been particularly useful in settling the text of the first Khaṇḍa where the two other important ᴍss ᴀ and ᴋ were fragmentary. ɢ ʜ constitute, in fact, one manuscript; ɢ has folios 1–8, while ʜ has folios 9–24. Both come from Pātan; ɢ came from Muni Śrī Puṇyavijayajī's collection, and ʜ, originally belonging to Kesarabāī's

20 KĀNHADADE PRABANDHA Jñāna Bhaṇḍāra, Pāṭan, came from the late Mohanlal Dalichand Desāi's collection acquired by Godiji's Upāśraya, Bombay. The descrip- tion given below, therefore, applies equally to both G and H. Each folio of the MS G(H) measures 10" by 4.4". It has side-margins about .9" wide and margins above and below about .4" to .5". Two double lines in black ink with the intermediate space painted in saffron ink mark off the margins. There are on an average 13 lines per page. The number of letters per line varies from 37 to 48, the average being 41. In the bottom of the right-hand margins of the verso sides are written the verse-numbers within an ornamental double square painted in saffron ink. In the left-hand margin at the top is written the title of the poem,¹ within an ornamental rectangle. Below it in a small square painted in saffron ink the number of the page is written. Some of the pages have their left and right edges painted with red ink. The manuscript has no svastika. Every quarter of a verse is marked with a vertical stroke in saffron ink. At the end of the verse and again after the verse-number a vertical stroke is marked. However, from the end of Khaṇḍa II up to the end of the MS (at III 159) these verticals are left out, though space for them has been kept blank. It appears that the copyist postponed the drawing of the verticals and then forgot about it (from f. 18 verso to the end of the MS). The colophon of each Khaṇḍa is rubricated, and also the first verse of the Khaṇḍa. Names of places like जाल्हहर, भीनमाल, and the names of metres are also rubricated. If a ा (ā-sign) or ि (i-sign) is written through mistake, it is simply crossed out by two upward strokes. Sometimes the letter to be deleted is painted out with red ink. The addition of an inadvertently omitted letter is made just above its proper place. Sometimes (as on f. 5 verso l. 8 and f. 8 verso l. 5) a number of words are deleted by drawing a line through them and marking a cross before and after the deleted portion. The deleting line is usually drawn in black ink but once it is in red ink (f. 11 recto,

¹ The title of the poem appears differently on almost every page, as shown below: काहांनडदे (f 1, 8, 9), कानहदे चहू० (f 2), काहाण्हदेनी जु० (f 3), काहान्हदेव जुपर (f 4); काहान्हदे चहू (f 5, 6), काहान्हदे च० (f 7), काहान्हदेनु प (f 10); काहान्हदनु पवाडु (f 11), काहांन्हदेन (f 12), काहान्हदे न (f 13), काहान्हदेनी (f 15); काहान्हदेव (f 16); काहांन्हदनु (f 18), कान्हडदे पवाउड (f 19), काहांन्हदनु पवाड (f 20); कांद्हदेनु पवाउड (f 21), काहान्हदेनु पवाडउ (f 22), काहान्हदनु प० (f 23), काहान्हद प (f 34).

l. 6). At one or two places the wrong word is disfigured and the correct word is written just above it. Marginal additions are rare. On folio 16 recto l. 10 the number of the verse (figure 3) is disfigured; it is therefore written again in the left-hand margin. Similarly on f. 17 recto last line, the word इणि omitted in the text is added in the left-hand margin. The numbering of verses is regular up to I 37; after that up to I 123 two verses are generally numbered as one, so that I 124 comes to be numbered as 84. From I 125 numbering again becomes regular up to I 191, which is followed by the Bhāḍāulī. After the Bhāḍāulī again two verses are numbered as one up to I 223, after which the numbering is regular up to the end of Khaṇḍa I. In Khaṇḍa II numbering is regular up to II 27, after which two verses are numbered as one up to II 92 (II 92 = vs 57 in H). Then come the interpolated verses numbered regularly in the sequence (vss 58–81 in H). The verses from II 93 onwards up to the end of Khaṇḍa II are, generally, numbered regularly. From Khaṇḍa III vs 1 onward up to the end of the ms H (f. 24 verso) the numbering is quite regular. The praśasti or maṅgalācaraṇa is ॥ ॐ नमः ६० ॥ in Khaṇḍa I. Khaṇḍa II also commences with a maṅgalācaraṇa : ॐ नमो गुणपतये नमः । The colophons are : इति प्रथमषंडः । १ अति द्वीअ षंड समापत ॥ २ The final colophon is not available, as the ms is incomplete. The ms (GH) is quite well-preserved. The paper is thin. The handwriting is not well-formed and balanced, though it is legible enough and appears to have been written by some professional scribe, who may have been a Brahmin. From the style of the script as well as the condition of the paper it seems to belong to somewhere between 1700 and 1750 v. s. The ms is likely to have come from Rājasthān, judging from the paper. The manuscript is corrupt and not reliable; but it preserves some important readings and is at some places helpful for collation. It is evident that GH is one single manuscript¹, which got split up into two fragments ; one (folios 1–8) came in the possession of Muni ¹ Compare the facsimiles of mss G H, reproduced in this edition. A word is, perhaps, necessary to explain why parts of the same ms came to be designated as two separate mss.

Śrī Puṇyavijayajī, while the other part, through the efforts of Muni Jashvijayajī, was acquired by Kesarbāī's Jñāna Bhaṇḍāra, Pāṭan, from where the late Mr. Desāi seems to have borrowed it for study. Ms J belongs to the Jaina Jñāna Bhaṇḍāra of Saṁvegī's Upāśraya, Hājā Patel's Pole, Ahmedabad. It was made available to me by Muni Śrī Puṇyavijayajī. It has 22 folios, each measuring 10.6" by 4.25", with side-margins .4" to .5" wide, and top and bottom margins .3" to .4" wide. The margins are marked off by a double line in black ink. It commences on folio 1 recto and ends on folio 22 verso. It has about 18 lines per page. The last folio has 17 lines on the recto side and 4 lines on the verso side. On the verso sides of the folios, in the right-hand margin bottom, is written the number of the folio. The title of the poem is not mentioned anywhere. Deletion is effected by crossing the top of the letter only or by one or two vertical strokes (as on f. 1 recto, l. 12). Sometimes merely a dot on the letter and the vowel signs attached to it (f. 5 recto, l. 4) indicates deletion. Sometimes dots are marked to indicate the deletion of a letter or its vertical (f. 7 recto, l. 9). The addition of a letter is made above its proper place in small hands, using paḍimātrā if space is insufficient for insertion of a top mātrā (f. 2 recto, l. 4)

I have pointed out how at the suggestion of Śrī Mohanlāl Dalichand Desāi I went to Patan in 1941, but could not trace there the Kāṇhaḍade Prabandha ms in the Kesarbāi Jñāna Bhaṇḍāra. When I informed Mr. M D. Desāi about this he sent me a list of variants he had collected from that ms. When in 1948 I collated MSS A to G, which were all that were then accessible to me, I included the variants supplied to me by Śrī M D. Desāi in my Critical Apparatus, designating its source as the H ms I did suspect then that ms H, which immediately followed G might be a part of it, but I could not establish the identity merely on this evidence After that I collected a few variants from Derasari's text and named the source as I Later, in 1951, three other manu- scripts—MSS J K L—became accessible and were utilized for collation. It was only as late as October 1952 that the original ms from which the late M. D. Desāi had collected the variants, became available to me It was then found that both G H constituted one single ms, which had got split up through peculiar circumstances By this time about one-third of the present volume coming almost up to the end of first Khaṇḍa was already printed off It was, therefore, necessary to retain the old scheme of manuscript-designation, namely G for Puṇya- vijayajī's fragment of folios 1–8, and H for the ms from Godījī's Upāśraya, containing folios 9–24

हृदयो गत फल रूपि पचवर्ण पलाए न जंभी किला २ कुल लोकू लेल / वा जती व आउलीं विसुरो वह की । ग्राम कुकुआ प्रह ली पत ती प रा य । चल या व राय गु दलकनी का गाल वा तनह र पाया म । त्तिह या म वि क ल सा कि मा हू जी च अ प च बी स व तर म ऊ रू रो वा वन बूर समाहि, तप सु म्र थ नी / वा रा विचारी । श्री क रण त क मु ग ना त त्र मा ण कूँ बा उ रा र सु आए हे २ इहु वु व चार । थारू मू लि व न नु वं चा लि। प व न नु व र श की र्त्ति व स्तारिय स्ना भी महो दरा सं या मिं स घर । बाला वी मारी सा भू मी भ्रादि व पा नि टू वणी नमः खार कर ३ । वन्नी मंधा यु घे वा वरि । आप का षां भी त नू कं य के व चि ते ह या उ त्त ची ना ने व च्या मन ह्नि की था। जरि हि जी प फ्रा जाल सालोल श्री पर श्री भ ग वा ली क रा वी ऽ गां मा ला ह व धुं ड़ि मि मजन सा ना ह म गा वू त हेो मा मु ग ट त णा छत्र गाय बह अं भोर न भा उ ली न लकी मा जे क वी क सं कं मी । राग प म अ्र भी । वायव बा ग नी वा गी मा ह ना फ मू द हेो गि त करा नी क पा उ ट्रीं भ्र म्रा स ति कं जी । रं ज नी रूप हार जै । अं बे करण चत्र वु । स्तर्दव न वा षी हि करा आ ग दि उ । अन फं फं दी जन जय जय स बद वी ल इ / ब ल ए नु लेन तुम मी / ना पटि न्त च म ना चा स्का वरू म्मारिन फा र क / अल्लीं गं गार / व ऽ प न ना को प कू रा बो ए नाणी हरूं मी भू राय ऽ न तल सी त्त र्त्त ष ति प ह टि । अग श्री सी राम कि का भा पी षा व रु क वा जी माना येल र यूं क नू गर का शि न शी अ न जल फा ले ना उप रिय की मा प प मा हणं वं मा ऽ रू तं म दी १ न व द ना जी वा म म्र भी फ स्त र तर धरी या न ल रमा । पर जित र न्नी

22 KĀNHAḌADE PRABANDHA Śrī PUṆYAVIJAYAJĪ, while the other part, through the efforts of Muni JASHVIJAYAJĪ, was acquired by Kesarbāi's Jñāna Bhaṇḍāra, Pātan, from where the late Mr. DESĀI seems to have borrowed it for study. Ms J belongs to the Jaina Jñāna Bhaṇḍāra of Saṁvegī's Upāśraya, Hājā Patel's Pole, Ahmedabad. It was made available to me by Muni Śrī PUṆYAVIJAYAJĪ. It has 22 folios, each measuring 10.6" by 4.25", with side-margins .4" to .5" wide, and top and bottom margins .3" to .4" wide. The margins are marked off by a double line in black ink. It commences on folio 1 recto and ends on folio 22 verso. It has about 18 lines per page. The last folio has 17 lines on the recto side and 4 lines on the verso side. On the verso sides of the folios, in the right-hand margin bottom, is written the number of the folio. The title of the poem is not mentioned anywhere. Deletion is effected by crossing the top of the letter only or by one or two vertical strokes (as on f. 1 recto, l. 12). Sometimes merely a dot on the letter and the vowel signs attached to it (f. 5 recto, l. 4) indicates deletion. Sometimes dots are marked to indicate the deletion of a letter or its vertical (f. 7 recto, l. 9). The addition of a letter is made above its proper place in small hands, using padimātrā if space is insufficient for insertion of a top mātrā (f. 2 recto, l. 4). I have pointed out how at the suggestion of Śrī Mohanlal Dalichand DESĀI I went to Pātan in 1941, but could not trace there the Kānhadade Prabandha ms in the Kesarbāi Jñāna Bhaṇḍāra. When I informed Mr. M. D. DESĀI about this he sent me a list of variants he had collected from that ms. When in 1948 I collated MSS A to G, which were all that were then accessible to me, I included the variants supplied to me by Śrī M. D. DESĀI in my Critical Apparatus, designating its source as the H ms. I did suspect then that ms H, which immediately followed G might be a part of it, but I could not establish the identity merely on this evidence. After that I collected a few variants from DERĀSARĪ's text and named the source as I. Later, in 1951, three other manu- scripts—MSS J K L — became accessible and were utilized for collation. It was only as late as October 1952 that the original ms from which the late M. D. DESĀI had collected the variants, became available to me. It was then found that both G H constituted one single ms, which had got split up through peculiar circumstances. By this time about one third of the present volume coming almost up to the end of first Khaṇḍa was already printed off. It was, therefore, necessary to retain the old scheme of manuscript-designation, namely G for PUṆYA- VIJAYAJĪ's fragment of folios 1–8, and H for the ms from Godījī's Upāśraya, containing folios 9–24.

डदे"! Wait! Look at Line 5: "राजा महोदरा संयती... बालबीम मीरी २। मरी भीर चिप या नि रुकसी नमः खा करेश..." Look at Line 6: "...चालते चव्यान सीह की आज राहि गोपफाण लाना ल..." Look at Line 7: "...मुगट तलांट गाय फर..." Look at Line 8: "...माधव..." -> "माधव वउनी वागवी माहना फमूहनी..." -> माधव ब्राह्मण! Madhava Vyasa/Brahmana! "माधव वउली वागवी माहनाफ मूहनी..." -> "माधव" is Madhava who went to Delhi to invite Alauddin! Look at Line 9: "...अनेक बंध जय जय जय सबद्द..." Look at Line 11: "...अलपखां संभार/धनुष नाव संध करा..." -> "अलपखां" (Alap Khan)!! Yes! "अलपखां संभार धनुष बाण संध करा"! Look at Line 11: "अलपखां संभार/धनुष बाण संध करा/बाण तथा रीशीर मी मूरा याउ..." Look at Line 12: "आसीरशी अनि का मां पीधा के वकिवाजी नाना बोल मूर गर करिपु बडी जगजल का होना उपरिय" Look at Line 13: "...४२ [जिंत