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

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