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

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