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

10 KĀNHADADE PRABANDHA
The number of letters per line varies from 54 to 60, the
average being about 57 letters per line.
Being written by a Brahmanical scribe it has no svastika or
conventional blank space in the centre of the page.
On the verso sides at the top of the left-hand margin is
written the title of the poem, namely, कान्हडदेनी चउपई¹, while in the right-
hand margin at the bottom is marked the number of the folio.
If a letter or a word is to be corrected, the wrong word or letter
is struck out and the correct word or letter is written in small hands just
above it. Similarly if a word or a letter has been inadvertently omitted
it is inserted in small hands just above its proper place, which is marked
with a cross. Sometimes the addition is made in the margins instead
of above the place of omission² In that case the place of omission is
indicated by a small cross, and the addition is made in the nearer
margin between two crosses, care being always taken that the addenda
appear in the same line as the place

राजस्थान पुरातन ग्रन्थमाला
कान्हड़दे प्रबन्ध

[पाण्डुलिपि 'A' का अन्तिम पृष्ठ (पत्र १८ पृष्ठ २) - प्रशस्ति/पुष्पिका भाग]

(मुख्य पाठ का अधिकांश भाग अति-क्षीण एवं अस्पष्ट मुद्रण/दोषयुक्त प्रतिकृति के कारण अपाठ्य है; केवल अन्तिम चरण के निम्नांकित अंश पठनीय हैं:)

॰॰॰ मिय
॰॰॰ कापर
॰॰॰ शिरोम
॰॰॰ तात
॰॰॰ लिहो यै
॰॰॰ लिति
॰॰॰ डिउमी
॰॰॰ खीख
॰॰॰ चपाज
॰॰॰ भीजिन
॰॰॰ श्री ॰॰ रामइ
॰॰॰ नन्दन
॰॰॰ माणह
॰॰॰ किन्तःमि
॰॰॰ [वि]जियश्रीः
॰॰॰ ऽऽ पायकि
॰॰॰ पुत्र ॰॰ घट
३२ ॥२८॥ २४

Last page (folio 18 verso) of the A ms.

॥श्री॥ संवत १६७० वर्षे माह सुदि १५ गुरौ वासरे लिखितं दलपतेन वा रिणंक !
निषिद्धे किमपि न वाच्यं सुकवि कया एहि आं जो हु रंग उउ वत्र मण म ! राउल कउ म्हारो दीना
मांपूंछना उमति आप्णाउजवी कारि तिने दूत नी वर्षावा ॥७५॥ एकि विव्वे गने र म्योउ सिंह
ते दूत णां प्रविसि कुंत र ग्हिया ते फु ल कूद दंत णं नत दर्दै ॥ उक्तं ॥ प्रत्पवदन व नव सा णा उिक
ऽफल क ड त प या छि थ्या ॥ उफु ल कुदृ दंतं णं नत दर्दै ॥ अकलंकु दृष्टे दीठो थि वी ज
कुल कामिणी ध्यानि गते यु उलह उ हे रि प्राण । एतानि कुल पति सिंगांग धारि, ३ कुल
उहटे टिकदेदां तां उ फल क ड पविद्यू घउ ऽ ती तैपं कले दिदृगो घवसी ॥२५॥ उतिकुंल
णात्य गारी विने घिवा उ० वा दिउ ऽ कुलितिनि ऽङि• काह्य मरुद्दी तिने उ उ मा दुमा थण
मनां मूंकौ हुं • लहि डा गिका को छम्मा बा उि फुल ऽछह्या रिपुया ता ळणा गमन नाम उ०,
रिपु न्याति विस्कुल ककि रिह दि न उ सात्रि ॥ का ऽक वित्रिनि ऽके न गते दृष्टाहं ॥
कवि त्रि त्रिके नर यू लि ल घा नी रा थानि थ्यो स्यात तली । पाति डलप थ्र वे वि तलां २॥
उलियां मति का ऽउ न मत्रि ब्रिश्रुतियं नायुम नो रथ प्रां क्लि इ प्राऽस्तन वे ध कव्य
त मति घारी कलि बुद्धि क ध अउ तय विष्य सां वाल्या पा क उलियक्रिनिकुली !
शृंग प्रा ऽक द्विक्कतं णा पद्म नान मति विरचितं तणं । आश्वशारितुरिंग ऽकुं हत णां
चतुर्थः खण्डः ॥
॥शुभं भवतु॥

INTRODUCTION 11
The script is Brahmanical Devanāgarī of the Marwāḍi type.
It is clear and firm. It does not use the paḍīmātrā or the side-
mātrā, which is a characteristic of the Jaina Devanāgarī.
The manuscript is written on paper of a very inferior quality.
Sometimes, on account of this, the scribe had to allow half the side of
a page to remain blank (vide folio 5). The ᴍs is not well-preserved
either. The pages are soiled, perhaps on account of dampness, and
have been damaged at places by insects. The edges have suffered due
to careless handling, and on folio 18 the writing at the corners has
thus disappeared.
Inspite of this the ᴍs has been very valuable for fixing the
text. It is the oldest dated ᴍs, belonging to the same century as the
poet. It was copied in Jhalor, the poet's native place, where it was
possible that the copyist had access to the author's autograph copy or
an immediate copy of it. I have, therefore, given due weightage to
this ᴍs, and considered it most reliable in the constitution of the text.
Ms B, No. 1541 of 1891–95 in the collection of the Bhandarkar
Oriental Research Institute, is in the form of a pothi, stitched on
the left-hand side, which is rather unusual. The ᴍs contains
(1) the Karṇalīlāvilāsa of Sūradāsa, (2) the Kānhaḍade Prabandha
of Padmanābha, and (3) the Raṇamallachanda of Śrīdhara Vyāsa, in
that order.
On the first page and after the Karṇalīlāvilāsa some medical
formulae are copied out. The ᴍs covers in all 59 folios of which
47 are occupied by the Kānhaḍade Prabandha.
The folios are not numbered, but counting the opening folio of
the ᴍs as 1, the Kānhaḍade Prabandha starts on folio 8 verso, and
concludes on folio 55 verso. Each folio measures about 8" by 4.6".
There is a margin of .4" both on the right and the left, marked off by a
double line usually in black and sometimes in red ink. The margins at
the top and the bottom of the page are .3" wide.
On the first 20 sides there are, generally, 13 lines per page;
the remaining pages have usually 14 lines per page, except 18 sides—
most of them in the latter part of Khaṇḍa III and in Khaṇḍa IV—
which have 15 lines per page. The last page, where the poem
ends, has 16 lines.
The number of letters per line varies from 28 to 36, the
average being about 32 letters per line.
Neither the title of the poem nor the folio-numbers are
written in the margins.

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When a letter is to be deleted, its head-line is crossed by
two small upward strokes,¹ or, occasionally, the head-line of the
letter is just omitted. If, however, several letters or words are
to be deleted, they are rounded off by a line or sometimes placed
between two brackets and rubricated². If a letter or word is omitted,
the addition is made in fine hand just above the place of omission³
Sometimes, the copyist has written the meaning of the word in
small hand just above the word⁴.
Refrains of songs and the recurring caraṇa occurring in several
verses are usually abbreviated⁵.
There are no marginalia except in IV 293 where in the margin
is written : १३६८ वैशाख.
The numbering of verses is regular up to I 38 ; after that two
verses and sometimes even four verses are numbered as one up to I 147.
Here the numbering becomes regular once again till the end of the
first Khaṇḍa, though occasionally a verse is left unnumbered. In

INTRODUCTION 13
The script is Brahmanical Devanāgarī of the Rājasthānī type.
The handwriting is firm and bold and is uniform throughout the
Kānhadade Prabandha, but comparatively thinner in the Raṇamalla-
chanda, and thicker in the Karpaṭīlāvilāsa. The difference was
perhaps due to the use of different pens. Some of the interspersed
medical formulae appear, from their broad, immature, irregular writing,
to have been copied by some one else, perhaps by a young student,
who was just learning to write.
The paper is thick and the ms is well-preserved. The absence
of a detailed colophon, the inclusion of several works, along with
information for personal use, in the same ms, may perhaps be taken
to indicate that the copyist was also the owner, who wrote out the
poem for his personal use. That he was a learned man, perhaps
a scholar, is evident from the careful transmission of the text.
Ms C comes from the manuscript-collection of the Jñāna
Bhaṇḍāra of Anantanāthjī's temple, Bombay. It consists of 34 folios,
each measuring 9.5" by 4.25". It has margins on the two sides marked
off by two double lines. The right-hand margin is usually 1" wide,
while the left-hand side margin is usually .8" wide. The upper and
lower margins are, generally, .45" wide.
The first 5 folios have 14 lines per page. The rest of the folios
have 15 lines per page, except the last (f. 34 recto) which has 11 lines
only.
The number of letters per line in the complete lines above and
below the svastika varies from about 38 to 46, the average being
about 42 letters per line.
On the verso sides in the margins of the left-hand side is written
the title कान्हडदे० (in folios 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 17, 21, 24, 27, 31, 33); or कान्हडे
पुप (in folio 20); or कान्हडदे प्र० (folios 14, 15). On the remaining pages
the title appears as कान्हडडे पु०. In the right-hand margins at the bottom
the number of the folio is written.
A small vertical stroke or sometimes two strokes cutting the
headline (folio 5 verso, l. 13) indicates that the letter is deleted (folio
4 verso, l. 9).
Marginal addenda are very few indeed.
At only one place (f. 24 recto, l. 14) one letter (पु) has become
illegible; two small dashes one above the other are marked just above
it, and in the right-hand margin the letter is written with the same

14 KĀNHADADE PRABANDHA
mark (=) to show that it is to be inserted at the place where a similar
mark appears above the line. Again on folio 30 verso l. 9 where a
word is left out in the writing, its place is indicated by a cross above
the line, and the word (सवे) is written in the left-hand margin, along
with the cross. On folio 31 verso l. 11 where f (the vowel i) is left
out, two curved strokes above and below the letter are marked instead.
The numbering of verses is absolutely regular throughout the
entire poem.
Verse-numbers are always rubricated. The names of metres,
colophons of Khaṇḍas, dates of events are also usually rubricated.
The praśasti reads : ॥ ६० ॥ श्री गुरुभ्यो नमः । श्री शारदायै नमः ।
The colophons are :
इति श्री कांहडदेकथायां प्रथमखंडमध्ये गुजराती सोरठ द्विदेश बंद नवलाप सोमईउ देव लेई गडि
जालहुर पासि शिरोंणि दल आव्यां कान्हडदे झीला अधिकारे प्रथम पंड. ।
इति श्री कान्हुडदे द्वितीय खंड समाप्तः द्वितीयमध्ये अलावदीन पातसाहि नाहर मलिक मोकल्या
ते समीआणे गडरोहु करिउ सांतलसी चहूआंण भडी भागु पातसाहि समीआणो गढ लीधु बीजि पंडि
१५८ गाथा ॥
इति श्रीकान्हडदे तृतीयखंड संपूर्ण तृतीय पंड मध्ये बाहडमेर मीनमालभंग पातसाइ जाल्हुरि
आगम मुंगलभंग पातसाइ दीलीचलन समसखान हरमसहित बंदिकरण सीताई गडि आगम बंछछोडनं वीवाह-
वातवर्णनं पंड ३ गाथा २३९ ॥
इति कान्हडदे चहुआण चतुर्थ गंड सपूर्णम् चतुर्थ संड मध्ये जाल्हुरि गडरोहु वर्ष ८ संवत् १३६८
गढभंग पश्चात् अलावदीन कान्हडदे पठी मास ८ अलावदीनमृत्यु तिहार पछी संवत् १५१२ पद्मनाभ
पंडित रास उद्धरता सं० १७११ वर्षे कार्तिक वदि १४ सोमे ।
The ms is exceedingly well preserved, as will appear from the
facsimile. The paper is thick, light brownish in colour, and so well-
preserved that even the fibres in its texture are visible. In the left-
hand margins insects have bored holes, some of which have been
repaired by pasting strips of the same kind of paper, so that the
damage is not noticeable. But the text has in no way suffered on
account of this The ink is shining black, giving a glossy appearance to
the writing.
The script is Jaina Devanāgarī, with the paḍimātrā. The
style of writing is exceedingly beautiful and can be ranked as one of
the finest specimens of Old Western Rājasthānī calligraphy. There
are hardly any corrections in the ms — even signs for ā and ī follow-
ing a consonant which are likely to be interchanged are all meti-
culously though spontaneously differentiated. The brief colophon at
the end of the ms gives the date of copying only—v. s. 1711. The

राजस्थान पुरातन ग्रन्थमाला कान्हडदे प्रबन्ध

तदूतणीकरतिवरवणी स्रीभंवतन०नरुधुईंथी मार मार मार माड सामहं सामसार जाउंकरणं
चघणउ नगरथरी महुकफक्तविलीछिकरी. एउं एकविलेते नर मोडलितिहंतणा मसिउः ऊतलेति नि
फ्तललेि दिणदिंन पंमोतेलिउरंगगंगसमान एउं विहफललेऊडतपकी विउली जेफल ऊरमददानी
मिली जेफल सयरवचन गुंमांण तेफल ऊरुसंमातलि विगूयण. सुरि तेफल ऊरुतपसीश्वर त्रिंफक्त
सबीदागसाद तिफलऊरुगयाप्रयागि गढ़साधुर कान्हडदे गंजि. शूं तेन तंगायणचीवनिहि जेहन
क्रूदानअरुपंधी जेफल वारि माइसिमता नि फल ऊरुमलायां मसरी दू कान्हरूचरियकानानं
वनि विरुदवरितिक्खउ येषुणि तरवरूवलि वि भं री चक्रयागजडिलिकारितिराणी फतुश्रास
कवित्त मति करी ऊलयुगाकमोत्र लिनवू वि च अर्थखूसंमसर्माम्- यतुर्थखंडनमाध्मा जशुशो॥
सविमजनतनणी ॥ इति कान्हडदेचरित्राए... चं जीवीदीन का झकणदिवशी मास्ट सुला वदीनम्
रटऊरूपदे संवताह६ घटंन पवातंब्रू सं० १५०॥ वर्षे का हिंकृवदिव थमाम्
ण्ड तिसरपढी संवत् १४५२ पदमनावणंसित्तन मसंडरता

Last page (folio 34, recto) of the O ms.

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In making a correction, the wrong letter is painted out white,
and the correct letter is written thereon.¹ On folio 9 verso line 14 i
(i-vowel) written in place of ī (ī vowel) through mistake is written
over with red ink.
Marginalia are few indeed. On folio 7 recto and folio 15 recto
l. 11, where a letter is left out in the text, the addition is made
in the left-hand side margin, with a kākapada in the line indicating
the proper place where the letter is to be inserted. There is a
marginal note in the right-hand margin of f. 25 verso, where the copyist
has made a note that “as f. 27 of the original is missing it could not be
copied.”
The numbering of verses is quite regular in Khaṇḍas I, II, III.
But in Khaṇḍa IV, after vs 307, which is numbered as 80 (= vs 280)
in the ms, the next verse is numbered as 300, while the last verse is
numbered as 45 (= vs 345).
Neither the verse-numbers nor the colophons are rubricated;
instead, after every quarter of the verse, a vertical stroke in red ink is
made, and at the end of every verse two strokes in red ink, one before
the verse-number and one after it, are made.
The end of a Khaṇḍa is marked with a colophon followed by the
number of the Khaṇḍa in figures and two or more vertical strokes in
black and red.
The colophons are as follows :-
इति कान्हडदे चतुर्बंधंड प्रथमखंड समाप्तंः ।
इति कान्हडदे चतुर्बंधंड द्वितियखंड समातं ॥ २ ॥
इति कान्हडदे तृतियखंड संपूर्णं ॥ ३ ॥
इति कान्हडे प्रबंध चतुर्थखंड समाप्तं ॥
The final colophon reads :—
हीं² सं. १९ । ३० माहा शुद २ वार भोमे । ऋषभप्रसादात् गां । डीसानगरे । सं । पं । कल्याण-
विजयजी तत । शीष्य मुं । मोतिचंद । मये पं । दयाविजयजी चोमासे कृत्वा । ५ मी वसंत ।
As the ms is a recent one it is quite well-preserved. The
copyist is a Jaina scribe named Motichand, who copied the poem at
Deesa, North Gujarat, in v. s. 1930, Māgh Śukla 2nd, Tuesday. His
handwriting is clear and bold, as a professional scribe's would be. He
appears to have deciphered the original fairly correctly and copied it
¹ Cf. f. 8 recto l. 14 ; f. 9 recto l. 2, f 12 recto l. 15.
² ॐ which marks the beginning of Khaṇḍa IV is written in red ink. Similarly ॥
in the colophon on Khaṇḍa IV is written in red ink.

INTRODUCTION 15
absence of the copyist's name perhaps indicates that the ms was copied
by the owner himself, who, both from the style of writing and textual
emendations, appears to be a scholar of Gujarātī, Rājasthānī and
Sanskrit. He is likely to have been a Jaina.
The traditional svastika or ornamental blank space is found in
the centre in all the pages. It is a survival of the style of writing on
palm-leaf, where space had to be kept blank in the middle of the page
for a hole through which the string was passed.
The only other mss used in this edition which have a svastika are
E and K.¹
Ms D, No. 239 of 1873–74, in the manuscript-collection of the
Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, comes from a Jaina
Bhaṇḍāra in Tharad.² This is the ms that Dr. BUHLER got copied
out and sent to Navalrām PANDYA for publication in the Śālāpatra.
It has 29 folios, each measuring 11.2″ by 5.1″. It has margins
.9″ wide on both sides, marked off by a thick double-line in red and a
small margin of .45″ above and below. The right and left extremities
of the folio are also marked with a broad red line.
The ms starts on folio 1 recto—the maṅgalācaraṇa or praśasti
being ॥ एदं० ॥ श्री गणेशाय नमः । and ends on folio 29 verso. There is a big
lacuna on f. 25 verso, where the copyist has left the last six lines blank
and made a remark in the bottom of the left-hand margin that “as f. 27
of the original is missing, it could not be copied”.³ On the verso sides,
the folio-number is written both in the left-hand margins at the top
and in the right-hand margins at the bottom. The title of the poem
is not written anywhere
Folio 1 has 16 lines per page; folios 4, 5, 6, 9, 10 have 18 lines
per page. All the other folios have 17 lines per page, except folio 25
verso which has only 11, and folio 29 (last folio) which has 19 lines on
the recto side, and 16 lines on the verso side.
There are usually 38 to 49 letters per line, or 43 letters per line
on an average.
If a letter is inadvertently omitted it is added just above its
appropriate place in small hands. If ि (sign for short i) is left out, two
curved strokes, one on the upper side and the other on the lower side
of the consonant are marked to indicate it.⁴
¹ Only folios 2-7 in E have a svastika, the remaining folios are without it.
² There is a note to this effect on the label pasted on the cloth-wrapper of the ms.
³ Thus vss IV 176–IV 206 are lost in the D ms
⁴ Cf. f. 12 verso l. 13, f. 13 verso l. 8.

राजस्थान पुरातन ग्रन्थमाला
कान्हडदे प्रबन्ध
Folio 24 verso of the B MS

INTRODUCTION 15
absence of the copyist's name perhaps indicates that the ms was copied
by the owner himself, who, both from the style of writing and textual
emendations, appears to be a scholar of Gujarātī, Rājasthānī and
Sanskrit. He is likely to have been a Jaina.
The traditional svastika or ornamental blank space is found in
the centre in all the pages. It is a survival of the style of writing on
palm-leaf, where space had to be kept blank in the middle of the page
for a hole through which the string was passed.
The only other mss used in this edition which have a svastika are
E and K.¹
Ms D, No. 239 of 1873-74, in the manuscript-collection of the
Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, comes from a Jaina
Bhaṇḍāra in Tharad.² This is the ms that Dr. BÜHLER got copied
out and sent to Navalrām PANDYĀ for publication in the Śālāpatra.
It has 29 folios, each measuring 11.2" by 5.1". It has margins
.9" wide on both sides, marked off by a thick double-line in red and a
small margin of .45" above and below. The right and left extremities
of the folio are also marked with a broad red line.
The ms starts on folio 1 recto—the maṅgalācaraṇa or praśasti
being ॥ एं० ॥ श्री गणेशाय नमः । and ends on folio 29 verso. There is a big
lacuna on f. 25 verso, where the copyist has left the last six lines blank
and made a remark in the bottom of the left-hand margin that "as f. 27
of the original is missing, it could not be copied".³ On the verso sides,
the folio-number is written both in the left-hand margins at the top
and in the right-hand margins at the bottom. The title of the poem
is not written anywhere
Folio 1 has 16 lines per page, folios 4, 5, 6, 9, 10 have 18 lines
per page. All the other folios have 17 lines per page, except folio 25
verso which has only 11, and folio 29 (last folio) which has 19 lines on
the recto side, and 16 lines on the verso side.
There are usually 38 to 49 letters per line, or 43 letters per line
on an average.
If a letter is inadvertently omitted it is added just above its
appropriate place in small hands. If ि (sign for short i) is left out, two
curved strokes, one on the upper side and the other on the lower side
of the consonant are marked to indicate it.⁴
¹ Only folios 2-7 in K have a svastika, the remaining folios are without it.
² There is a note to this effect on the label pasted on the cloth-wrapper of the ms.
³ Thus vss IV 176.-IV 206 are lost in the D ms.
⁴ Cf. f 12 verso l. 13, f. 13 verso l. 8.

16 KĀNHAḌADE PRABANDHA
In making a correction, the wrong letter is painted out white,
and the correct letter is written thereon.¹ On folio 9 verso line 14 ि
(i-vowel) written in place of ी (ī vowel) through mistake is written
over with red ink.
Marginalia are few indeed. On folio 7 recto and folio 15 recto
l. 11, where a letter is left out in the text, the addition is made
in the left-hand side margin, with a kākapada in the line indicating
the proper place where the letter is to be inserted. There is a
marginal note in the right-hand margin of f. 25 verso, where the copyist
has made a note that "as f. 27 of the original is missing it could not be
copied."
The numbering of verses is quite regular in Khaṇḍas I, II, III.
But in Khaṇḍa IV, after vs 307, which is numbered as 80 (= vs 280)
in the MS, the next verse is numbered as 300, while the last verse is
numbered as 45 (= vs 345).
Neither the verse-numbers nor the colophons are rubricated;
instead, after every quarter of the verse, a vertical stroke in red ink is
made, and at the end of every verse two strokes in red ink, one before
the verse-number and one after it, are made.
The end of a Khaṇḍa is marked with a colophon followed by the
number of the Khaṇḍa in figures and two or more vertical strokes in
black and red.
The colophons are as follows :-
इति कान्हडदे चतुर्थखंड प्रथमखंड समाप्तं ।
इति कान्हडदे चतुर्थखंड द्वितियखंड समातं ॥ २ ॥
इति कान्हडदे तृतियखंड संपूर्णं ॥ ३ ॥
इति कान्हडे प्रबंध चतुर्थखंड समाप्तं ॥
The final colophon reads :-
हीं² स.। १९ । ३० माहा शूद २ वार भोमे । ऋषभप्रशादात् शां । डीसानगरे । लें। पं। कल्याण-
विजयजी तत । शीष्य मुं। मोतिचंद । मयें पं। दयाविजयजी चतुर्मासे कृत्या । ५ मी वसंत ।
As the MS is a recent one it is quite well-preserved. The
copyist is a Jaina scribe named Motichand, who copied the poem at
Deesa, North Gujarat, in v. s. 1930, Māgh Śukla 2nd, Tuesday. His
handwriting is clear and bold, as a professional scribe's would be. He
appears to have deciphered the original fairly correctly and copied it
¹ Cf. f. 8 recto l. 14, f. 9 recto l. 2, f. 12 recto l. 15.
² ॐ which marks the beginning of Khaṇḍa IV is written in red ink. Similarly हीं
in the colophon on Khaṇḍa IV is written in red ink.

INTRODUCTION 17
out with care. It appears that the original was written in the tradi-
tional Devanāgarī style with paḍimātrā, which has been properly
transcribed in modern Devanāgarī. Only at rare places the scribe
has mistaken the paḍimātrā for the ā-stroke of the preceding letter.
An interesting feature of the writing is the separation of the ा or ि
(ā or i) sign from the preceding consonant when the latter touches the
margin. At one place (f. 29 verso) the scribe has written वि in a
peculiar way—the ि mark written in l. 4 (last letter), and the letter व
in the succeeding line—l. 5 (first letter).
The comparative accuracy of this ms and the stage of language
it shows suggest that its original was an old and accurate manuscript.
But it seems to have suffered when the copy was made. It is
possible that the scribe has inserted anusvāras, which did not exist in
the original. ms D being only a recent transcript of an old ms, it
is not reproduced in facsimile.
Ms E is a fragmentary ms¹, originally belonging to the late
Dewan Bahadur K. H. Dhruva, now in the possession of the Gujarāt
Vidyā Sabhā, Ahmedabad.
As it is incomplete and its colophon has not come down, details
about its date and the copyist are lacking. However, from the condi-
tion of the manuscript, as well as the style of writing, it can be
presumed that the ms is at least as old as the B ms or perhaps even
a little older.
The fragment consists of 9 folios in all—folios 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and
21, 22, 23, 24.
Folios 4-9 measure 10.2" by 4.5" with margins .7" wide on
both sides and 5" at the top and the bottom Folios 21-24 measure
9" by 4" with margins .5" wide on both sides and .25" above and below.
The margins are marked out by three or more lines in red
and black. In the left-hand margins of the verso side are written
numbers of folios, but except on folio 22 verso left-hand margin
where at the top is written कान्हडदे २२, nowhere is the title of the
poem mentioned.
Folios 22, 23, 24 leave blank space in the middle to form a
svastika.
Folios 4-9 have on an average about 16 lines per page; while
folios 21-24 have about 18 lines per page. Folio 24 has 20 lines on
both sides.
¹ ms E extends from I 83–I 140, I 167–I 242, III 175–IV 61
‡

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

[शीर्षक / पृष्ठ-परिचय]
राजस्थान पुरातन ग्रन्थमाला | कान्हडदे प्रबन्ध

[पाण्डुलिपि पाठ : प्रथम पृष्ठ (Folio 1 Verso)]

॥ए णं॥ गोरीनंदन नीत नवौ ब्रह्मसुता सरसति। सारदवीणास्रुतिकरुं वाचउमल्ल निर्मलमति॥१॥ आदियु-
ग अवधारि हिया। दंतजलजयवंता असुरवधोत्री निकंददाता जुगसुरसंता। किंतारणि जिनमत जन्म गाहं ति-
णि लघीयउ। वासेदेवधुरिदीत जिनिसंपाउमतेरीउ॥२॥ त्रपद तत णघट्टि टुक कविवाणी वचन सुचंगा।
रुति सेति सिरी तणी॥ तिउअरीसुचि गीअ जालउ हरुउ दलिताणि दिस सामंत सीसुत ते अतासत एण पुण की-
धूं कीरति कान्हडदे तणी। नवकोटी नांनि तिम तांणिऽसामइ आविहि धण देसाधण कणग भरितावकहितणि डाफाया
उकणि सुइयदेवा॥३॥ दूहा॥ एक पाय वलनगिराणि श्श्राग तिणि तणुणं वाविलित तहा इरालग

... चीतंगद हार सुभणी मांस वंध भकत अमर वारमंल"

Line 11:
"ली गोरा गुं मियन वं तू हव कुंभर बोल हुं गल कम्प मंधू तरु श्री नारायण की तु पुहाव पास्त वयं १४ रा क्स"
Wait: after मंधू तरु: "श्री नारायण कीतु पुहाव पास्त वयं १४ राक्स" (or १३ somewhere?)
Wait, look at line 10/11:
Verse 12 is in line 10 ("१२").
In line 11: is there १३?
Look at "मंधू तरु": between मंधू and तरु is there a १३?
Wait: "मंधू तरु श्री नारायण कीतु" - wait, there is "१३" or "तरु"? Let's check: "मंधू १३ श्री नारायण कीतु"?
Wait, look at that word: "मंधू" then "१३" - ah! It looks like "१३" or "तरु"!
Wait, looking closely: it's "१३" with a stroke! Yes, 13!
Then "श्री नारायण कीतु पुहाव पास्त वयं १४ राक्स"

Line 12:
"विजो ल्हिला रुप सो ह नि विहंग राज रुदिय र प्य फणि परू श्रंगान चरण १५ युपद निरि अव व मरि

INTRODUCTION 19
The noteworthy feature of the manuscript is that lines are
written in red and black alternately—one line in red, one in black as
on folio 1 verso, folio 2 etc. Sometimes there are two lines in black
alternating with two lines in red (as on folio 3 recto). Often there are
3 lines in black, alternating with 3 lines in red (as on folio 5 verso).
Verse-numbers are written in the same ink in which the line is
written.
There are no marginal corrections. On folio 5 recto the verse
number—64—is added in the margin. In the text itself if a letter
or two are to be deleted the headline is crossed with two or three small
vertical strokes (folio 7 recto, ll. 1, 7; f. 2 verso l. 10). If a letter is
to be added the addition is made above its proper place in small hands
(f. 2 verso, l. 9). If words are to be transposed a number is given
above the word indicating their proper sequence (folio 3 verso l. 1).
The ᴍs is on the whole very clear and accurate.
The numbering of verses is correct up to verse I 35; after that
two verses are numbered as one, with the result that vs I 181, where
the manuscript concludes, is numbered as 107.
The praśasti or maṅgalācaraṇa is simply ॐ; and there is no
colophon, as the manuscript is only a fragment.
The script is exceedingly clear, bold and beautiful, approaching
the C ᴍs in its penmanship. The script is similar to the Jaina
Devanāgarī, but without padimātrā. The writing is rather larger
than usual, and is slanting towards the right. It appears from the
manuscript that the copyist was a professional one, who must have
had considerable experience of copying Jaina manuscripts, though he
himself might have been a Brahmanical scribe.
The manuscript is fairly well preserved and the paper used is
of medium thickness. About one-third of the page towards the right
shows signs of damage from exposure to moisture.
From the condition of the manuscript and the state of lang-
uage it preserves it may be assumed to be quite old, belonging almost
to the same period as ᴍs ʙ or ᴇ. The manuscript is very reliable and
has been particularly useful in settling the text of the first Khaṇḍa
where the two other important ᴍss ᴀ and ᴋ were fragmentary.
ɢ ʜ constitute, in fact, one manuscript; ɢ has folios 1–8, while
ʜ has folios 9–24. Both come from Pātan; ɢ came from Muni Śrī
Puṇyavijayajī's collection, and ʜ, originally belonging to Kesarabāī's

20 KĀNHADADE PRABANDHA
Jñāna Bhaṇḍāra, Pāṭan, came from the late Mohanlal Dalichand
Desāi's collection acquired by Godiji's Upāśraya, Bombay. The descrip-
tion given below, therefore, applies equally to both G and H.
Each folio of the MS G(H) measures 10" by 4.4". It has
side-margins about .9" wide and margins above and below about .4" to
.5". Two double lines in black ink with the intermediate space
painted in saffron ink mark off the margins.
There are on an average 13 lines per page. The number of
letters per line varies from 37 to 48, the average being 41.
In the bottom of the right-hand margins of the verso sides are
written the verse-numbers within an ornamental double square painted
in saffron ink. In the left-hand margin at the top is written the title
of the poem,¹ within an ornamental rectangle. Below it in a small
square painted in saffron ink the number of the page is written. Some
of the pages have their left and right edges painted with red ink.
The manuscript has no svastika.
Every quarter of a verse is marked with a vertical stroke in
saffron ink. At the end of the verse and again after the verse-number
a vertical stroke is marked. However, from the end of Khaṇḍa II
up to the end of the MS (at III 159) these verticals are left out, though
space for them has been kept blank. It appears that the copyist
postponed the drawing of the verticals and then forgot about it (from
f. 18 verso to the end of the MS). The colophon of each Khaṇḍa is
rubricated, and also the first verse of the Khaṇḍa. Names of places
like जाल्हहर, भीनमाल, and the names of metres are also rubricated.
If a ा (ā-sign) or ि (i-sign) is written through mistake, it is
simply crossed out by two upward strokes. Sometimes the letter
to be deleted is painted out with red ink. The addition of an
inadvertently omitted letter is made just above its proper place.
Sometimes (as on f. 5 verso l. 8 and f. 8 verso l. 5) a number of
words are deleted by drawing a line through them and marking a
cross before and after the deleted portion. The deleting line is
usually drawn in black ink but once it is in red ink (f. 11 recto,

¹ The title of the poem appears differently on almost every page, as shown below:
काहांनडदे (f 1, 8, 9), कानहदे चहू० (f 2), काहाण्हदेनी जु० (f 3), काहान्हदेव जुपर (f 4);
काहान्हदे चहू (f 5, 6), काहान्हदे च० (f 7), काहान्हदेनु प (f 10); काहान्हदनु पवाडु
(f 11), काहांन्हदेन (f 12), काहान्हदे न (f 13), काहान्हदेनी (f 15); काहान्हदेव (f 16);
काहांन्हदनु (f 18), कान्हडदे पवाउड (f 19), काहांन्हदनु पवाड (f 20); कांद्हदेनु पवाउड
(f 21), काहान्हदेनु पवाडउ (f 22), काहान्हदनु प० (f 23), काहान्हद प (f 34).

l. 6). At one or two places the wrong word is disfigured and the
correct word is written just above it.
Marginal additions are rare. On folio 16 recto l. 10 the
number of the verse (figure 3) is disfigured; it is therefore written
again in the left-hand margin. Similarly on f. 17 recto last line, the
word इणि omitted in the text is added in the left-hand margin.
The numbering of verses is regular up to I 37; after that up
to I 123 two verses are generally numbered as one, so that I 124
comes to be numbered as 84. From I 125 numbering again becomes
regular up to I 191, which is followed by the Bhāḍāulī. After the
Bhāḍāulī again two verses are numbered as one up to I 223, after
which the numbering is regular up to the end of Khaṇḍa I. In
Khaṇḍa II numbering is regular up to II 27, after which two verses
are numbered as one up to II 92 (II 92 = vs 57 in H). Then come
the interpolated verses numbered regularly in the sequence (vss 58–81
in H). The verses from II 93 onwards up to the end of Khaṇḍa II
are, generally, numbered regularly. From Khaṇḍa III vs 1 onward
up to the end of the ms H (f. 24 verso) the numbering is quite
regular.
The praśasti or maṅgalācaraṇa is ॥ ॐ नमः ६० ॥ in Khaṇḍa I.
Khaṇḍa II also commences with a maṅgalācaraṇa : ॐ नमो गुणपतये नमः ।
The colophons are :
इति प्रथमषंडः । १
अति द्वीअ षंड समापत ॥ २
The final colophon is not available, as the ms is incomplete.
The ms (GH) is quite well-preserved. The paper is thin. The
handwriting is not well-formed and balanced, though it is legible
enough and appears to have been written by some professional scribe,
who may have been a Brahmin. From the style of the script as well
as the condition of the paper it seems to belong to somewhere between
1700 and 1750 v. s. The ms is likely to have come from Rājasthān,
judging from the paper. The manuscript is corrupt and not reliable;
but it preserves some important readings and is at some places helpful
for collation.
It is evident that GH is one single manuscript¹, which got split
up into two fragments ; one (folios 1–8) came in the possession of Muni
¹ Compare the facsimiles of mss G H, reproduced in this edition.
A word is, perhaps, necessary to explain why parts of the same ms came to
be designated as two separate mss.