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

No marginal corrections or additions are found anywhere in
the ms.
The numbering of verses is regular up to I 191, after which
follows the Bhaḍāulī, a part of which is, in this ms, versified and
numbered. After the Bhaḍāulī up to the end of Khaṇḍa I the
verses are numbered regularly. Verses of Khaṇḍa II are numbered
regularly except that II 101 is marked as 300 instead of 100 according
to this ms. (The copyist perhaps wanted to give continuous numbers).
Verses in Khaṇḍa III are numbered regularly up to III 205 (which
is numbered 194 in this ms) which is however followed by verse 1
(= 201). After that the numbering is regular up to the end of the
Khaṇḍa In Khaṇḍa IV the numbering is regular up to the end,
except that instead of vs. 300 according to the scheme in this ms 100
is written through mistake.
Verse-numbers, refrains of songs, names of metres, beginning
of a Bhaḍāulī, colophons marking the end of a Khaṇḍa, are rubricated.
The maṅgalācaraṇa or prasasti of the ms is:
ॐ श्री भगवत्यै नम ।
Its respective colophons are:
इति श्री प्रथमपंड समापतः ॥ १ ॥
इति श्री द्वितीय पड समापतः ॥ २ ॥
इति श्री तृतीयखंड समाप्तः ॥
इति श्री राउल कान्हडदे पवाडु रास । संपूर्णः ॥ श्रीरस्तुः ॥ शुभं भवतु ॥ लेखकपाठकयो. ॥
The paper is of medium thickness and brownish in colour.
Insects have bored holes at the top and the bottom and in the right-
hand margins, but the writing has not suffered thereby. The ms is
very well preserved.
The handwriting is excellent; the script is Brahmanical Deva-
nāgarī, very occasionally using a paḍimātrā. The copyist who may
have been also the owner of the manuscript is certainly Brahmanical.
He is also a good scholar of Sanskrit and Gujarati. There is
no colophon indicating the date or the name of the copyist but from the
style of the script and condition of paper, the ms appears to belong to
the early 17th century v. s. The style of the script points to
Gujarāt as the place of its origin.
Ms K comes from the collection of Śrī Motichandji Khajanchi
of Bīkāner. It must have had originally 53 folios, of which the first
and the last—folios 1 and 53—are, unfortunately, missing, as also folio 49.