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

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.