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

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

VERTICAL! Wait, look at the orientation of the letters in "कान्हडदे प्रबन्ध": The letters are rotated 90 degrees! Wait, let's look at the page orientation: The page in the image: Height is larger than width! "Last folio (folio 23 recto and verso) of the J MS." is at the bottom, reading horizontally from left to right. Wait, can you read "Last folio..." normally? YES! "L - a - s - t f - o - l - i - o..." It is completely normal, upright text at the bottom. Now look at "राजस्थान पुरातन ग्रन्थमाला": It is at the top left, but rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise? Wait, if you rotate the entire image 90 degrees CLOCKWISE: Then "राजस्थान पुरातन ग्रन्थमाला" is at the TOP, reading normally from left to right! Let's check: 'रा' is on the left, 'ज' is next, 'स्था' is next, 'न' is next... YES! If you rotate the image 90 degrees CLOCKWISE, "राजस्थान पुरातन ग्रन्थमाला" is a standard running header at the top of the left page! And "कान्हडदे प्रबन्ध" is at the top of the right page (or running header on the right)! Wait, if rotated 90 degrees clockwise, "Last folio..." would be on the left edge, reading vertically! Why would

No marginal corrections or additions are found anywhere in the ms. The numbering of verses is regular up to I 191, after which follows the Bhaḍāulī, a part of which is, in this ms, versified and numbered. After the Bhaḍāulī up to the end of Khaṇḍa I the verses are numbered regularly. Verses of Khaṇḍa II are numbered regularly except that II 101 is marked as 300 instead of 100 according to this ms. (The copyist perhaps wanted to give continuous numbers). Verses in Khaṇḍa III are numbered regularly up to III 205 (which is numbered 194 in this ms) which is however followed by verse 1 (= 201). After that the numbering is regular up to the end of the Khaṇḍa In Khaṇḍa IV the numbering is regular up to the end, except that instead of vs. 300 according to the scheme in this ms 100 is written through mistake. Verse-numbers, refrains of songs, names of metres, beginning of a Bhaḍāulī, colophons marking the end of a Khaṇḍa, are rubricated. The maṅgalācaraṇa or prasasti of the ms is: ॐ श्री भगवत्यै नम । Its respective colophons are: इति श्री प्रथमपंड समापतः ॥ १ ॥ इति श्री द्वितीय पड समापतः ॥ २ ॥ इति श्री तृतीयखंड समाप्तः ॥ इति श्री राउल कान्हडदे पवाडु रास । संपूर्णः ॥ श्रीरस्तुः ॥ शुभं भवतु ॥ लेखकपाठकयो. ॥ The paper is of medium thickness and brownish in colour. Insects have bored holes at the top and the bottom and in the right- hand margins, but the writing has not suffered thereby. The ms is very well preserved. The handwriting is excellent; the script is Brahmanical Deva- nāgarī, very occasionally using a paḍimātrā. The copyist who may have been also the owner of the manuscript is certainly Brahmanical. He is also a good scholar of Sanskrit and Gujarati. There is no colophon indicating the date or the name of the copyist but from the style of the script and condition of paper, the ms appears to belong to the early 17th century v. s. The style of the script points to Gujarāt as the place of its origin. Ms K comes from the collection of Śrī Motichandji Khajanchi of Bīkāner. It must have had originally 53 folios, of which the first and the last—folios 1 and 53—are, unfortunately, missing, as also folio 49.

24 KĀNHADADE PRABANDHA Each folio measures 10.3" by 4.3" with side-margins .8" wide and top and bottom margins .3" to .4" wide. The side-margins are marked off by a sharp triple line or sometimes a bunch of several fine lines. Folios 2–12 have generally 11 lines per page. Folios 13–29 have usually 12 lines per page. Folios 30–31, 34, 37–39, 41–44, 46–48 and 52 have 13 lines per page. Folios 32, 33, 40, 45, 50, 51 have 14 lines per page. Each page has on an average 12 lines. The number of letters per line varies from 31 to 45, the average being about 36 letters. In the left-hand margins bottom of the verso side is written the number of the folio; the name of the poem is, however, not mentioned. Deletion is made by painting out the letter or word with white colour, after crossing it out with very small vertical strokes on the top (vide f. 1 recto, ll. 1, 8, 9). On f. 8 verso where several words are to be deleted they are painted out white. Sometimes on this white ground the correct words are written (f. 38 recto l. 10; f. 45 verso, ll. 11–12). Occasionally the deleted words are, after crossing them by a fine line, rounded off (f. 47 recto, l. 6). Words omitted in the text are added in the side margins in the same line (f. 2 verso, l 5). On f. 5 recto thus a whole caraṇa is added in the left-hand margin, vertically, starting from the bottom, its place being shown in the writing by a cross. A whole caraṇa is similarly added in the right-hand margin of folio 6 verso, and an entire verse on f. 20 recto. Sometimes, if only a letter or so is to be added, it is written in smaller hands above its proper place (f. 3 verso, l. 5; folio 4 verso, l. 5). At one palce a whole caraṇa is thus added above the line in small hands (f. 5 recto l. 5), the position of the insertion being indicated by a kākapada. Once, on f. 29 recto, l. 8 such addition is made in small hands below the place of omission. On f. 10 recto the addition of a caraṇa is made in the bottom-margin in small hands The numbering of verses is regular up to the end of Khaṇḍa I, the last verse of Khaṇḍa I being numbered as (2) 49. Then, unlike the other mss, the numbering runs continuously, i. e. the first verse of Khaṇḍa II is numbered as 250, but verse 400 (= II 154) is, through mistake, numbered as only 100. The concluding verse of Khaṇḍa II is numbered as 14 (= 414); and the first verse of Khaṇḍa III is numbered

चित्र में प्रस्तुत हस्तलिखित प्रति के अन्तिम पृष्ठ (पत्र ५२ पृष्ठ/verso, पाण्डुलिपि 'K') का पंक्तिवार मूल पाठ:

व्यजातामसिदालाब जिंति दीया[ण] वा[ग]ह... [उ] जे केतत उवअणि जिनि सिषो तब परांग कीरति डंपण ब[लि] विस्मा[उ] जिणि सुणइ तेणि असाचा करी॥ [१] एणी तो जन यदि तियउ थयउ सूर जत्रीति थतणी तर काया बांण जनम गयउ अचेत उभउ आपन तापनी महा दुरत ए० ॥ ३०॥ अमर राज उलिम भव तरा जेट दातु पण न विकल अणुआरा जाण इकीरी तिका० ३० दतणी ॥ स ष द रकि थि प्र० ३०॥ लीअण॥२०॥ तारा उसुटटी तिरन लापं जे केली छत्रिम इस तल पोरी कर च म अ ड ते उ दित व त भा मा हे अंतारूं धतिक खवंटाहिवावलसूल नगर उतां मरण का पदमना तिल-छिइ ० पण विवेक आणए को सीरोल दरश अवती जत दुधिकति उनरंन नी वा मा इस्तार तीतण इपसा डा० अण्वर संघ उडित्त्वाशणत्र... इरा अथ थामणी मम रावट मना रि कारिति विस्तरी ॥ आ सो तजंतो सरीर उक्मा० चउपइ खंड ४ समाप्त रसूं दया रखउ जिंप नवन मां वाहहावत पदमनाभं बांण यंधवता जाम उउ डित वरा सामा समाप्तं ॥ इति प्रबंधा ॥ संवत १५१२ वरसे ... दिने सोमे मार विस्ता डूा० आगा ल उरण ट ठ त्रि न मे त्र मा अ उल कान्हडदे नाना पद सती जिनी ति ० अं० एन नवी ति हस्ताणी कर तिवगी प्रध॥ ७॥ एक हिवि हिन समा समडा ते हताणी मसि द्रुत ट र ल इजिक फल कल अद दाधु ईदान अककल गं गात ० ए इस त नो त्रा णो ॥ लिफ ५२ लक हत य क धि ध द व नी जि ष व ल इ इ दी द व नि निरमली अकफर म लवचन प्स आंणा अकप त ध दूया०