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

6 KĀNHADAḌE PRABANDHA
Verses in DERĀSARĪ'S Edition Corresponding Verses in the
Present Edition
देवलोकथा तुमी वार देवलोकथा तुमी वार
पृथवीहि हुई अवतार ॥ पृथवीइं नही हुई अवतार ॥ ३-२११
डुमरी आवी कूंयरि गुणी कमले आयी डुंयरी सुणी
गढ रन्वारी वधामणी ॥ गयउ रवारी बदामणी ॥ ३-२२७
शोभित बूर्ज बूर्ज कांगह सोभित बुर्ज बुर्ज काकरउ ॥
नदी तरुअर फलवा गह ॥ नदी तरुअर उमाहरउ ॥ ४-२५
जाणइ भरह भेद संगीत¹ जाणइ जेह भरहसगीत
पाटबंध ते गाइ गीत ॥ पादप्रबंध ते गाइ गीत ॥ ४-५५
राजेगणि सवि ग्या संचरी पहिलउं मंत्र सुपरढु करी
पहिलू सवि सहू मेलु करी ॥ राजेगणि सवि ग्या संचरी ॥ ४-१२५
पातसाइइ कासित मोकल्यु पातसाहि कासीद मोकल्यउ
मालदे देस मारइ एकलु । मालदेव वीर साहु एकलउ ।
कमालदीन कहिड सांभलि कमालदीन कहिउं सांभले
गढ लीधा विण पाछउ बलि ॥ विण लीधा मत पाछउ वले ॥ ४-१४५
कटक तोरकां ऊपरि सूंडी कटक तोरका ऊपरि सूंडी
राउ सींधल दल आव्युं ॥ रासूंघल दल आव्यौ ॥ ४-१७३
उलीधि कर उतारीया उल्हीचइ कर उभारीया
वार सहस मूगल मारीया ॥ वार सहस म्लेछ मारीया ॥ ४-२११
खाडा भरत कागरा कोठइ पांडाभरत काकरउ कोठउ
इसिउ कही वखाणिउ ॥ इसिउं कही वखाण्यउ ॥ ४-२१३
जेमु लखमण छलभु जाणि जेसल लखमण लूम्वउ जाणि
ए नासत नाठा निरवाणि ॥ ए भीसत नाठा निरवाणि ॥ ४-२६३
पूनु, आसुड, वीजड बेड पूनउ आसउ भीजड जेड
धारसी नइ ईंपु जेढ ॥ धारसीह नइ दूदउ बेड ॥ ४-२८०
वीरमदेवि सुपासण काज वीरमदेव बंश पण काज
ऊठ वीहाडा कीधू राज ॥ अठ्ठठ वीहाडा कीधउ राज ॥ ४-२९८
जे फल लहि तापसि सवि जे फल पामइ तपसी सवे
जे फल हुइ बंध छोडवि ॥ जे फल हुइ बांद छोडवे ॥ ४-३४०
पूर्णिथ सग सवि सजन मलइ प्रेमसंगि सवि सज्जन मिलइ
पूर्णिथ आस मनोरथ फलइ ॥ आस मनोरथ सहूइ फलइ ॥ ४-३५२
A critical edition in the strict sense of the the term, of such a
monumental epic was, therefore, for long a desideratum. Such an
edition would enable scholars to form a correct picture of the language,
history and literary achievements of this remarkable period in the
history of Gujarāt and Rājasthān.
¹ जाणइ गोतिष, भरह संगीत I₂

INTRODUCTION 7
III
The Kānhaḍade Prabandha had attracted my attention ever
since I read it for my M. A. in 1931-1933. While teaching the
poem to the B. A. students from 1937 to 1940 I found that a critical
edition of the text of this work was absolutely necessary.
From 1940 I started acquiring the manuscripts. I got the
two ᴍss from the manuscript-collection of the Bhandarkar Oriental
Research Institute, Poona¹, which were used by DᴇʀĀSAʀĪ and
designated by him as ᴍss ग and घ respectively. After a prolonged
search it was also possible to hunt out the old numbers of the
Śāḷāpatra, in which Navalrām had published serially the text of the
ᴍs sent to him by Dr. Bᴜʜʟᴇʀ (the text designated as क by DᴇʀĀSAʀĪ).
The effort, however, was wasted as the text printed by Navalrām
turned out to be a verbatim and rather faulty transcription of Bᴜʜʟᴇʀ's
ᴍs (ᴍs ष in DᴇʀĀSAʀĪ). The agreement between the two texts and
the identical colophon in both leaves no doubt whatsoever regarding
this identity.
It was then brought to my notice that there was a ᴍs of
the Kānhaḍade Prabandha in the collection of the Jaina Jñāna
Bhaṇḍāra of the Anantanāthjī's temple, Bombay. I approached
the trustees of the temple through the late Ambālāl B. JĀNĪ, himself
a veteran scholar of mediaeval Gujarati literature. With the trustees'
permission I visited the Bhaṇḍāra and found to my great surprise
that along with the ᴍs mentioned in the catalogue of the Bhaṇḍāra
(the c ᴍs in the present edition) there was also another ᴍs of
the same work lying unnoticed there, because its first folio was lost
so that the cataloguer was left without any clue regarding the name of
the manuscript. This ᴍs (ᴍs A in the present edition) turned out
to be a rare find, an invaluable treasure, for it happened to be the
oldest dated ᴍs, copied in v. s. 1598 in Jhalor, the poet's own place,
where it may have had for its basis the poet's autograph or a direct
copy of it. Both the ᴍss were made available to me by the trustees
(1940). I then learnt from the late Mohanlāl Dalichand DᴇsĀI that
a fragmentary ᴍs of the work existed in the Kesarbāī Jñāna
Bhaṇḍāra at Pātan. I went to Pātan in October, 1941, in search
of the ᴍs. The ᴍs, however, could not be traced there. I met
there Muni Śrī PᴜṆʏᴀᴠɪᴊᴀʏᴀᴊĪ who was then engaged in preparing
a catalogue of the manuscripts lying in the various Jñāna Bhaṇḍāras
of Pātan. He had two fragmentary ᴍss of the work in his private
¹ No. 1541 of 1891-95; and No. 239 of 1873-74.

8 KĀNHAḌADE PRABANDHA
collection, which he promised to trace and send to me after his
cataloguing work was over.
After waiting for these ᴍss for sometime I started collating
the four principal ᴍss (A, B, C, D) I had acquired so far, and prepared
the text (1945). Then I received the two fragments (ᴍss F, G in the
present edition) from Muni Śrī Puṇyavijayajī, and also a fragment
(ᴍs E) from D. B. K. H. Dhruva's collection in the Gujarāt Vidyā
Sabhā, Ahmedabad. I also learnt from Muni Śrī Puṇyavijayajī about the
existence of a complete ᴍs of the Kānhaḍade Prabandha in the Bhaṇ-
ḍāra of Saṁvegī's Upāśraya, Ahmedabad. For some reasons the ᴍs
did not become available then. I, therefore, collated the newly acquired
ᴍss (ᴍss E, F, G) and revised the text in the light of this new material
(1947-48).
Just then the ᴍs from the Bhaṇḍāra at Saṁvegī's Upāśraya,
Ahmedabad, came into my hands through the good offices of Muni Śrī
Puṇyavijayajī. A little later I learnt about the existence of two fur-
ther ᴍss of the Kānhaḍade Prabandha in the collection of Śrī Moti-
chandji Khajāñchī of Bīkāner, well known for his excellent collection of
old manuscripts and paintings. I contacted Śrī Motichandji who readily
placed at my disposal the two ᴍss for purposes of collation (1951).
Finally, when this edition was in the press and the first Khaṇḍa
was printed off I received a letter from Śrī Agarchand Nāhṭā, the
veteran Rājasthānī scholar and antiquarian, drawing my attention to
the existence of a ᴍs of the Kānhaḍade Prabandha in the library of
Godījī's Upāśraya, Bombay, acquired from the successors of the late
Mohanlāl Dalīchand Desāī. The ᴍs was made accessible to me by
the trustees of Godījī's temple and upāśraya. It came just in time to
be utilized for the present edition, for the portion of the text from
where this fragmentary ᴍs commenced was then about to be printed
off. (October, 1952).
The acquisition of the different ᴍss since 1947–48 made it
necessary for me to collate them and to constitute the text over again
in the light of the fresh manuscript-material now available to me.
The later acquisitions, and particularly ᴍs K from Śrī Khajāñchī's
collection at Bīkāner, were very helpful in illuminating several obscure
portions of the text. So far, the A ᴍs was the principal Rājasthānī
ᴍs available to me. Where it was mutilated or corrupt it became
difficult for me to restore the text satisfactorily. This handicap was
removed by the K ᴍs, which was a Rājasthānī ᴍs, copied with great

INTRODUCTION 9
care, and though undated, was almost as old as the Δ ms and belonged
to the same group.
I had access to all the mss used by DERĀSARĪ, except the one
which he had designated as ख. I, therefore, thought it necessary to
record variants from DERĀSARĪ's text (designating it as 1) where it
differed sharply from the rest, assuming that they probably belonged to
ms ख, which was inaccessible to me.
I have utilized all mss available in the government and other
public libraries, Jaina Jñāna Bhaṇḍāras and private collections of
Gujarāt and Rājasthān. So far as I am aware no extant ms of the work
has escaped my notice. I may claim that there is hardly any edition of
an old work in any of the Indian languages which has been prepared
from manuscript-material, so rich and rare as that used in the present
edition.
IV
The present edition is based on the following ten manuscripts.
Ms A, in the collection of the Jñāna Bhaṇḍāra of Anantanāthjī's
temple, Bombay, consists of 18 folios, of which the first is missing,¹
though, fortunately, the last folio containing the colophon has been
preserved. The edges of this folio (folio 18 verso) have, however,
suffered damage, with the result that some letters in the text have
disappeared.
Each folio measures about 11.2" by 4.5". The size ' of the
folios, however, is not quite uniform, as some one has evidently tried to
prune the edges.
There is a margin of .5" on the right-hand side and .25" on
the left-hand side, and a small margin of .15" to .25" is kept above and
below the writing in each page.
There are on an average 23 lines per page. Folios 2, 8 recto,
9 verso, 10, 11 recto, 12 recto, 14 verso, and 15 recto have 23
lines each. Folios 3 recto, 11 and 12 verso, 14 recto, 16, and 18 recto
have 22 lines each. Folios 4, and 7 and 13 verso have 24 lines per page.
Folios 3 verso, 5, 6 and 7 recto, 9 and 13 recto, have 25 lines each.
Folios 8 verso, 15 verso and 17 recto have 21 lines; and folio 17 verso
has 20 lines. Folio 6 verso has 13 lines, because a part of the page
had to be left blank, as the writing on the other side had penetrated
too deep. On folio 18 verso, where the ms ends, there are 17 lines only.
¹ The first 61 verses of the text are lost with this folio. ms A, thus, commences
with I 62. There are no other lacunae in the ms.
†

10 KĀNHADADE PRABANDHA
The number of letters per line varies from 54 to 60, the
average being about 57 letters per line.
Being written by a Brahmanical scribe it has no svastika or
conventional blank space in the centre of the page.
On the verso sides at the top of the left-hand margin is
written the title of the poem, namely, कान्हडदेनी चउपई¹, while in the right-
hand margin at the bottom is marked the number of the folio.
If a letter or a word is to be corrected, the wrong word or letter
is struck out and the correct word or letter is written in small hands just
above it. Similarly if a word or a letter has been inadvertently omitted
it is inserted in small hands just above its proper place, which is marked
with a cross. Sometimes the addition is made in the margins instead
of above the place of omission.² In that case the place of omission is
indicated by a small cross, and the addition is made in the nearer
margin between two crosses, care being always taken that the addenda
appear in the same line as the place of omission.
The numbering of verses is often faulty. The discrepancy is
only slight in Khaṇḍas I and II, while it is extensive in Khaṇḍas III
and IV. In the fourth Khaṇḍa the first stanza is numbered as 67,
evidently continuing the numbering of the previous khaṇḍa, while
the last stanza is numbered as 1000.
The verse-numbers, the names of the metres, the refrains
of songs, and colophons are all rubricated with red lac.
The praśasti or maṅgalācaraṇa is lost with the first folio, while
the colophons of the Khaṇḍas and the final colophon read as below:—
इति प्रथम खंड समाप्त ॥
इति द्वितीय खंड समाप्त. ॥
इति तृ(ती)य समाप्त खंड ॥ समाप्त ॥
इति श्री कान्हचरि(य) संपूर्ण मिति ॥ सवत १५ आपाढादि ९८ वर्षे श्री जालोरगढ महादुर्गे
विहारीवँशे मल्लिश्री अलीसर विजयराज्ये श्री अचलगच्छे गच्छाधिराज श्री गुणनिधानसूरि विद्यमाने । वा०
श्री मेलराज शिष्य सोप्रत श्री पुंण्यलब्धि महोपाध्याय सि वा० जयलब्धिगणि वा० श्री भानुलब्धिगणि लिषतं ॥
पं० चारित्रलब्धि वाचनार्थं ॥ काती वदि ९ गुरुवारे लिषत(म्) ॥
¹ On folio 3 the title is mentioned as कान्ह चोपाई, which may have been written
probably by a later reader or collector Folios 2, 5, 8 and 18 are without the
title, which may have disappeared when its edges crumbled away For the same
reason on some folios the number has been lost
² Such marginal additions are made on folios 4 verso, 5 and 6 recto, 7 verso, 9 recto,
10 verso, 11 recto, 13 verso, and 16 recto

राजस्थान पुरातन ग्रन्थमाला
कान्हडदे प्रबन्ध
[इ]ति श्री एकाणल्ह...
...गुरु एकाणल्ह...
...शिष्य श्री पद्मनाभ...
...विमुनीतात...
...नितमिंतरी...
...सारकनि...
...मंतकणी...
...मण्डलीक...
...मण्डलीक...
...श्री रामजी...
...श्री राम नाम...
...तत लीपण...
...आख्याण...
...श्री गोकुलनाथ...
...जय रवियतः
...मंधाधा च कृ-
...तरलियत-
३२ ॥२८॥
Last page (folio 18 verso) of the A ms.

10 KĀNHADADE PRABANDHA
The number of letters per line varies from 54 to 60, the
average being about 57 letters per line.
Being written by a Brahmanical scribe it has no svastika or
conventional blank space in the centre of the page.
On the verso sides at the top of the left-hand margin is
written the title of the poem, namely, कान्हडदेनी चउपई¹, while in the right-
hand margin at the bottom is marked the number of the folio.
If a letter or a word is to be corrected, the wrong word or letter
is struck out and the correct word or letter is written in small hands just
above it. Similarly if a word or a letter has been inadvertently omitted
it is inserted in small hands just above its proper place, which is marked
with a cross. Sometimes the addition is made in the margins instead
of above the place of omission² In that case the place of omission is
indicated by a small cross, and the addition is made in the nearer
margin between two crosses, care being always taken that the addenda
appear in the same line as the place

राजस्थान पुरातन ग्रन्थमाला
कान्हड़दे प्रबन्ध

[पाण्डुलिपि 'A' का अन्तिम पृष्ठ (पत्र १८ पृष्ठ २) - प्रशस्ति/पुष्पिका भाग]

(मुख्य पाठ का अधिकांश भाग अति-क्षीण एवं अस्पष्ट मुद्रण/दोषयुक्त प्रतिकृति के कारण अपाठ्य है; केवल अन्तिम चरण के निम्नांकित अंश पठनीय हैं:)

॰॰॰ मिय
॰॰॰ कापर
॰॰॰ शिरोम
॰॰॰ तात
॰॰॰ लिहो यै
॰॰॰ लिति
॰॰॰ डिउमी
॰॰॰ खीख
॰॰॰ चपाज
॰॰॰ भीजिन
॰॰॰ श्री ॰॰ रामइ
॰॰॰ नन्दन
॰॰॰ माणह
॰॰॰ किन्तःमि
॰॰॰ [वि]जियश्रीः
॰॰॰ ऽऽ पायकि
॰॰॰ पुत्र ॰॰ घट
३२ ॥२८॥ २४

Last page (folio 18 verso) of the A ms.

॥श्री॥ संवत १६७० वर्षे माह सुदि १५ गुरौ वासरे लिखितं दलपतेन वा रिणंक !
निषिद्धे किमपि न वाच्यं सुकवि कया एहि आं जो हु रंग उउ वत्र मण म ! राउल कउ म्हारो दीना
मांपूंछना उमति आप्णाउजवी कारि तिने दूत नी वर्षावा ॥७५॥ एकि विव्वे गने र म्योउ सिंह
ते दूत णां प्रविसि कुंत र ग्हिया ते फु ल कूद दंत णं नत दर्दै ॥ उक्तं ॥ प्रत्पवदन व नव सा णा उिक
ऽफल क ड त प या छि थ्या ॥ उफु ल कुदृ दंतं णं नत दर्दै ॥ अकलंकु दृष्टे दीठो थि वी ज
कुल कामिणी ध्यानि गते यु उलह उ हे रि प्राण । एतानि कुल पति सिंगांग धारि, ३ कुल
उहटे टिकदेदां तां उ फल क ड पविद्यू घउ ऽ ती तैपं कले दिदृगो घवसी ॥२५॥ उतिकुंल
णात्य गारी विने घिवा उ० वा दिउ ऽ कुलितिनि ऽङि• काह्य मरुद्दी तिने उ उ मा दुमा थण
मनां मूंकौ हुं • लहि डा गिका को छम्मा बा उि फुल ऽछह्या रिपुया ता ळणा गमन नाम उ०,
रिपु न्याति विस्कुल ककि रिह दि न उ सात्रि ॥ का ऽक वित्रिनि ऽके न गते दृष्टाहं ॥
कवि त्रि त्रिके नर यू लि ल घा नी रा थानि थ्यो स्यात तली । पाति डलप थ्र वे वि तलां २॥
उलियां मति का ऽउ न मत्रि ब्रिश्रुतियं नायुम नो रथ प्रां क्लि इ प्राऽस्तन वे ध कव्य
त मति घारी कलि बुद्धि क ध अउ तय विष्य सां वाल्या पा क उलियक्रिनिकुली !
शृंग प्रा ऽक द्विक्कतं णा पद्म नान मति विरचितं तणं । आश्वशारितुरिंग ऽकुं हत णां
चतुर्थः खण्डः ॥
॥शुभं भवतु॥

INTRODUCTION 11
The script is Brahmanical Devanāgarī of the Marwāḍi type.
It is clear and firm. It does not use the paḍīmātrā or the side-
mātrā, which is a characteristic of the Jaina Devanāgarī.
The manuscript is written on paper of a very inferior quality.
Sometimes, on account of this, the scribe had to allow half the side of
a page to remain blank (vide folio 5). The ᴍs is not well-preserved
either. The pages are soiled, perhaps on account of dampness, and
have been damaged at places by insects. The edges have suffered due
to careless handling, and on folio 18 the writing at the corners has
thus disappeared.
Inspite of this the ᴍs has been very valuable for fixing the
text. It is the oldest dated ᴍs, belonging to the same century as the
poet. It was copied in Jhalor, the poet's native place, where it was
possible that the copyist had access to the author's autograph copy or
an immediate copy of it. I have, therefore, given due weightage to
this ᴍs, and considered it most reliable in the constitution of the text.
Ms B, No. 1541 of 1891–95 in the collection of the Bhandarkar
Oriental Research Institute, is in the form of a pothi, stitched on
the left-hand side, which is rather unusual. The ᴍs contains
(1) the Karṇalīlāvilāsa of Sūradāsa, (2) the Kānhaḍade Prabandha
of Padmanābha, and (3) the Raṇamallachanda of Śrīdhara Vyāsa, in
that order.
On the first page and after the Karṇalīlāvilāsa some medical
formulae are copied out. The ᴍs covers in all 59 folios of which
47 are occupied by the Kānhaḍade Prabandha.
The folios are not numbered, but counting the opening folio of
the ᴍs as 1, the Kānhaḍade Prabandha starts on folio 8 verso, and
concludes on folio 55 verso. Each folio measures about 8" by 4.6".
There is a margin of .4" both on the right and the left, marked off by a
double line usually in black and sometimes in red ink. The margins at
the top and the bottom of the page are .3" wide.
On the first 20 sides there are, generally, 13 lines per page;
the remaining pages have usually 14 lines per page, except 18 sides—
most of them in the latter part of Khaṇḍa III and in Khaṇḍa IV—
which have 15 lines per page. The last page, where the poem
ends, has 16 lines.
The number of letters per line varies from 28 to 36, the
average being about 32 letters per line.
Neither the title of the poem nor the folio-numbers are
written in the margins.

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

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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.

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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.

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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
‡