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

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