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

as 15 (= 415). Khaṇḍa III ends at vs. 663; Khaṇḍa IV commences
with vs. 664.
Verse-numbers, names of the metres, commencement of the
Bhaḍāuli, stops in the Bhaḍāuli, refrains of songs, dates, and the colo-
phons are rubricated.
The prasasti or maṅgalācaraṇa is lost as the first folio is missing.
The colophons of the Khaṇḍas are :
इति श्री कान्हदे पउपइ प्रथमखंड समाप्त. ॥ १ ॥
इति द्विती खंड समाप्तः ॥ २ ॥
॥ छ ॥
The MS is in excellent condition. The paper is thick and
brownish. The handwriting is beautiful and rather large up to f. 26.
Sometimes the writing is marred by haste, as on f. 32. In the last 12
folios—from f. 40–52—the writing is not uniform, nor comparable to
the preceding pages in attractiveness, but it is certainly from the pen of
one and the same copyist. The MS is carefully copied, accurate and
preserves the old tradition faithfully. As the final colophon has not
been preserved nothing definite can be known either about the copyist
or the date of transcription. It appears, however, that the copyist was
a Brahmanical scribe, as the script is Brahmanical Devanāgarī of the
Rājasthānī type. There is no padīmātrā. From the condition of the
paper, script etc. the MS may be placed in the early 17th century.
Ms L also comes from the private collection of Śrī Motichandji
KHAJĀNCHĪ of Bīkāner. It is fragmentary; only folios 15 to 38 are
extant, of which again folio 32 is missing.
Each folio measures 10" by 4.3" with margins on two sides .7"
wide marked off by two fine double lines each, sometimes at a little
distance from each other. The top and the bottom margins are about
.5" wide.
The lines per page vary from 13 to 16, the average being about
15 per page. Folios 15, 16, 18 have 13 lines per page; folios 19, 20,
23, 27–29, 34–35 have 14 lines per page; folios 17, 22, 24–26, 30–31,
36–38 have 15 lines per page. Folios 21, 33 have 16 lines per page.
There are on an average 43 letters per line—varying from 37 to
48 letters per line.
In the bottom of the left-hand margin of the verso side is
written the folio-number, but the name of the poem is not mentioned
anywhere.
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