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

INTRODUCTION 29
V
These manuscripts arrange themselves in three distinct groups
according to their common readings, omissions, interpolations, verse
order, etc.
Mss CDJ are allied, and very different from the rest; but
amongst them DJ show a greater mutual affinity.
Of the remaining Mss B, G (H) and L show enough mutual
affinity to be classed as one group, descended from a common source.
A and K are alike, but are not copies of the same ms.
E definitely belongs to the B G H L group.
F is a very short fragment coming only up to I 181; yet its
relationship with the CDJ group is clear.
I can be safely regarded as a conflation of B and D.
The geneology of the various manuscripts can be stated in
the following stemma :
Archetype
┌──────────┴───────────────┬───────────────────────────────┐
┌───┴───┐ ┌───┴───┬───────┐ ┌───┴───────┐
│ │ ┌───┴───┐ │ │ ┌───┴───┐ │
A K │ │ E L │ │ F
B G C ┌───┴───┐
│ (H) │ │
│ D J
└───┐ ┌───┘
└───► I ◄───────┘
The summary of omissions and readings common to the different
manuscripts given in Appendix I will show in detail how this geneology
is determined.
Of the foregoing manuscripts A is, according to the date of
copying, the oldest ms. It is copied in v. s. 1598, 86 years after the date
of composition, in Jhalor, the native-place of the poet. It is probable
that the copyist had access to the poet's autograph or a direct copy of
it. I have, naturally, given more importance to this manuscript (ms A).
Ms K also comes from Rājasthān, is equally accurate, and appears
quite old. I have, therefore, given the same importance to it is as to A.