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

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.

Śrī Puṇyavijayajī, while the other part, through the efforts of Muni
Jashvijayajī, was acquired by Kesarbāī's Jñāna Bhaṇḍāra, Pāṭan, 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 paḍimātrā 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 Mohanlāl Dalichand Desāi I
went to Patan in 1941, but could not trace there the Kāṇhaḍade 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
Derasari'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

हृदयो गत फल रूपि पचवर्ण पलाए न जंभी किला २ कुल लोकू लेल / वा जती व आउलीं विसुरो वह की । ग्राम
कुकुआ प्रह ली पत ती प रा य । चल या व राय गु दलकनी का गाल वा तनह र पाया म । त्तिह या म वि क ल सा कि मा
हू जी च अ प च बी स व तर म ऊ रू रो वा वन बूर समाहि, तप सु म्र थ नी / वा रा विचारी । श्री क रण त क मु ग ना
त त्र मा ण कूँ बा उ रा र सु आए हे २ इहु वु व चार । थारू मू लि व न नु वं चा लि। प व न नु व र श की र्त्ति व स्तारिय
स्ना भी महो दरा सं या मिं स घर । बाला वी मारी सा भू मी भ्रादि व पा नि टू वणी नमः खार कर ३ । वन्नी मंधा
यु घे वा वरि । आप का षां भी त नू कं य के व चि ते ह या उ त्त ची ना ने व च्या मन ह्नि की था। जरि हि जी प फ्रा जाल सालोल
श्री पर श्री भ ग वा ली क रा वी ऽ गां मा ला ह व धुं ड़ि मि मजन सा ना ह म गा वू त हेो मा मु ग ट त णा छत्र गाय बह
अं भोर न भा उ ली न लकी मा जे क वी क सं कं मी । राग प म अ्र भी । वायव बा ग नी वा गी मा ह ना फ मू द हेो गि
त करा नी क पा उ ट्रीं भ्र म्रा स ति कं जी । रं ज नी रूप हार जै । अं बे करण चत्र वु । स्तर्दव न वा षी हि करा आ ग
दि उ । अन फं फं दी जन जय जय स बद वी ल इ / ब ल ए नु लेन तुम मी / ना पटि न्त च म ना चा स्का वरू म्मारिन
फा र क / अल्लीं गं गार / व ऽ प न ना को प कू रा बो ए नाणी हरूं मी भू राय ऽ न तल सी त्त र्त्त ष ति प ह टि । अग
श्री सी राम कि का भा पी षा व रु क वा जी माना येल र यूं क नू गर का शि न शी अ न जल फा ले ना उप रिय
की मा प प मा हणं वं मा ऽ रू तं म दी १ न व द ना जी वा म म्र भी फ स्त र तर धरी या न ल रमा । पर जित र न्नी

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.

डदे"!
Wait! Look at Line 5:
"राजा महोदरा संयती... बालबीम मीरी २। मरी भीर चिप या नि रुकसी नमः खा करेश..."
Look at Line 6:
"...चालते चव्यान सीह की आज राहि गोपफाण लाना ल..."
Look at Line 7:
"...मुगट तलांट गाय फर..."
Look at Line 8:
"...माधव..." -> "माधव वउनी वागवी माहना फमूहनी..." -> माधव ब्राह्मण! Madhava Vyasa/Brahmana!
"माधव वउली वागवी माहनाफ मूहनी..." -> "माधव" is Madhava who went to Delhi to invite Alauddin!
Look at Line 9:
"...अनेक बंध जय जय जय सबद्द..."
Look at Line 11:
"...अलपखां संभार/धनुष नाव संध करा..." -> "अलपखां" (Alap Khan)!!
Yes! "अलपखां संभार धनुष बाण संध करा"!
Look at Line 11:
"अलपखां संभार/धनुष बाण संध करा/बाण तथा रीशीर मी मूरा याउ..."
Look at Line 12:
"आसीरशी अनि का मां पीधा के वकिवाजी नाना बोल मूर गर करिपु बडी जगजल का होना उपरिय"
Look at Line 13:
"...४२ [जिंत

VERTICAL!
Wait, look at the orientation of the letters in "कान्हडदे प्रबन्ध":
The letters are rotated 90 degrees!
Wait, let's look at the page orientation:
The page in the image:
Height is larger than width!
"Last folio (folio 23 recto and verso) of the J MS." is at the bottom, reading horizontally from left to right.
Wait, can you read "Last folio..." normally?
YES! "L - a - s - t f - o - l - i - o..."
It is completely normal, upright text at the bottom.
Now look at "राजस्थान पुरातन ग्रन्थमाला":
It is at the top left, but rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise?
Wait, if you rotate the entire image 90 degrees CLOCKWISE:
Then "राजस्थान पुरातन ग्रन्थमाला" is at the TOP, reading normally from left to right!
Let's check:
'रा' is on the left, 'ज' is next, 'स्था' is next, 'न' is next...
YES! If you rotate the image 90 degrees CLOCKWISE, "राजस्थान पुरातन ग्रन्थमाला" is a standard running header at the top of the left page!
And "कान्हडदे प्रबन्ध" is at the top of the right page (or running header on the right)!
Wait, if rotated 90 degrees clockwise, "Last folio..." would be on the left edge, reading vertically!
Why would

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.

24 KĀNHADADE PRABANDHA
Each folio measures 10.3" by 4.3" with side-margins .8" wide
and top and bottom margins .3" to .4" wide. The side-margins are
marked off by a sharp triple line or sometimes a bunch of several
fine lines.
Folios 2–12 have generally 11 lines per page. Folios 13–29
have usually 12 lines per page. Folios 30–31, 34, 37–39, 41–44, 46–48
and 52 have 13 lines per page. Folios 32, 33, 40, 45, 50, 51 have 14
lines per page. Each page has on an average 12 lines.
The number of letters per line varies from 31 to 45, the average
being about 36 letters.
In the left-hand margins bottom of the verso side is written
the number of the folio; the name of the poem is, however, not
mentioned.
Deletion is made by painting out the letter or word with
white colour, after crossing it out with very small vertical strokes
on the top (vide f. 1 recto, ll. 1, 8, 9). On f. 8 verso where several
words are to be deleted they are painted out white. Sometimes on
this white ground the correct words are written (f. 38 recto l. 10; f. 45
verso, ll. 11–12). Occasionally the deleted words are, after crossing
them by a fine line, rounded off (f. 47 recto, l. 6).
Words omitted in the text are added in the side margins in
the same line (f. 2 verso, l 5). On f. 5 recto thus a whole caraṇa is
added in the left-hand margin, vertically, starting from the bottom, its
place being shown in the writing by a cross. A whole caraṇa is
similarly added in the right-hand margin of folio 6 verso, and an entire
verse on f. 20 recto. Sometimes, if only a letter or so is to be added,
it is written in smaller hands above its proper place (f. 3 verso, l. 5;
folio 4 verso, l. 5). At one palce a whole caraṇa is thus added above
the line in small hands (f. 5 recto l. 5), the position of the insertion
being indicated by a kākapada. Once, on f. 29 recto, l. 8 such
addition is made in small hands below the place of omission. On f. 10
recto the addition of a caraṇa is made in the bottom-margin in small
hands
The numbering of verses is regular up to the end of Khaṇḍa I,
the last verse of Khaṇḍa I being numbered as (2) 49. Then, unlike
the other mss, the numbering runs continuously, i. e. the first verse of
Khaṇḍa II is numbered as 250, but verse 400 (= II 154) is, through
mistake, numbered as only 100. The concluding verse of Khaṇḍa II is
numbered as 14 (= 414); and the first verse of Khaṇḍa III is numbered

चित्र में प्रस्तुत हस्तलिखित प्रति के अन्तिम पृष्ठ (पत्र ५२ पृष्ठ/verso, पाण्डुलिपि 'K') का पंक्तिवार मूल पाठ:

व्यजातामसिदालाब जिंति दीया[ण] वा[ग]ह... [उ] जे केतत उवअणि जिनि सिषो तब परांग
कीरति डंपण ब[लि] विस्मा[उ] जिणि सुणइ तेणि असाचा करी॥ [१] एणी तो जन यदि तियउ थयउ सूर जत्रीति
थतणी तर काया बांण जनम गयउ अचेत उभउ आपन तापनी महा दुरत ए० ॥ ३०॥ अमर राज
उलिम भव तरा जेट दातु पण न विकल अणुआरा जाण इकीरी तिका० ३० दतणी ॥ स ष द रकि थि प्र० ३०॥
लीअण॥२०॥ तारा उसुटटी तिरन लापं जे केली छत्रिम इस तल पोरी कर च म अ ड ते उ दित व त भा मा हे
अंतारूं धतिक खवंटाहिवावलसूल नगर उतां मरण का पदमना तिल-छिइ ० पण विवेक आणए को सीरोल
दरश अवती जत दुधिकति उनरंन नी वा मा इस्तार तीतण इपसा डा० अण्वर संघ उडित्त्वाशणत्र...
इरा अथ थामणी मम रावट मना रि कारिति विस्तरी ॥ आ सो तजंतो सरीर उक्मा० चउपइ खंड ४ समाप्त
रसूं दया रखउ जिंप नवन मां वाहहावत पदमनाभं बांण यंधवता जाम उउ डित वरा सामा समाप्तं ॥
इति प्रबंधा ॥ संवत १५१२ वरसे ... दिने सोमे मार विस्ता डूा० आगा ल उरण ट ठ त्रि न मे त्र मा अ उल
कान्हडदे नाना पद सती जिनी ति ० अं० एन नवी ति हस्ताणी कर तिवगी प्रध॥ ७॥ एक हिवि हिन समा
समडा ते हताणी मसि द्रुत ट र ल इजिक फल कल अद दाधु ईदान अककल गं गात ० ए इस त नो त्रा णो ॥ लिफ ५२
लक हत य क धि ध द व नी जि ष व ल इ इ दी द व नि निरमली अकफर म लवचन प्स आंणा अकप त ध दूया०

राजस्थान पुरातन ग्रन्थमाला
कान्हडदे प्रबन्ध

Manuscript Folio (L MS, Folio 38 verso)

• असि आमण आण दीधं दुलह ॥
  यत्रीअइ मास साठि पंचावइ
  नेत्र प्रथोकि नयन रस डांम ।
  इति श्रीमद्दूंगरसी फल श्रीमण
  तमहरा वतारा काणि कु
  रंकुलिति साद्रुम यशुआ अ
  तवत् मति पद्म आद्रए इरा
  रान कन्त लष वाण गाजा
  ॰ ॰ ॰ न जान न वारिनि म
  रन या ॰ ॰ ॰ सभर राज
  इइ सत्रानी धयगण त्त्रगवा
  इदिक विजन कलताअइ
  बना निति करिति विक्रम १५
  दाहु पड प्रभु रागत मात

Last page (folio 38 verso) of the L MS.

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.
4]

26 KĀNHADADE PRABANDHA
Deleting a letter is made as usual by marking two small upward
strokes on the head-line or top of the letter (f. 16 recto, l. 1 ; f. 18
verso, ll. 8, 9). Sometimes a headline is not formed which also indicates
deletion. If a number of words are to be deleted they are placed within
two curved lines not unlike modern brackets (f. 16 recto, l. 2; f. 30
verso, ll. 9-10).
The addition of a letter, left out in the text, is made sometimes
in the side-margin (folio 21 verso, ll. 7, 11) and sometimes above the
line in small hands (f. 25 l. 8) when several letters are to be thus
added, the addition is made in small hand in the top-margin flanked by
a cross on each side, and the place of addition is indicated by a cross
resembling a kākapada (f. 25 recto top-margin).
The numbering of the verses is irregular. Sometimes two verses,
sometimes even four verses are numbered as one. After II 142 the
numbering is regular up to the end of Khaṇḍa II (the last verse of
Khaṇḍa II is numbered as 55) The verse-numbers being continuous,
the first verse of Khaṇḍa III is marked as 56. Otherwise the
numbering is again regular : vs III 47 is numbered as 300; vs III 151
is numbered as 400; vs III 250 is numbered as 500. Khaṇḍa III ends
at 501; so the first verse of Khaṇḍa IV is numbered as 502; IV 98 is
numbered as 600, IV 200 is numbered as 700; vs. IV 299 is numbered
as (7)97 (the next three verses have remained unnumbered), and
the last verse in the ms (folio 38 verso, l. 15)—IV 342—is numbered
as (8)40
The folio numbers, refrains, the verse-endings and verse-numbers,
names of metres, Bhaḍāualis, the beginnings of Khaṇḍas and the colo-
phons are all rubricated.
The colophons are .
इति राजा श्री कान्हडदे द्वितीय पंड समाप्त. ॥
इति राजा श्री कान्हडदे तृतीय स्वर्ग समाप्त ॥
The final colophon has not come down as the ᴍs is fragmentary.
The ᴍs is fairly well-preserved, but the paper being thin and
of an inferior quality the edges crumble away when handled. The
copyist is a professional scribe and appears to be Rājasthānī, both from
the script and the pronounced Rājasthānī character of several words.
He is not a scholar, which accounts for the lapses in copying. The
script is Devanāgarī of the Rājasthānī type, and frequently resorts to
pṛṣṭhamātrā, which, however is not uniformly adopted as in ms c. The
handwriting is an excellent specimen of Old Western Rājasthānī pen-
manship. The ms is important as preserving a purely Rājasthānī
version of the poem. From the condition of the ms and the style of

INTRODUCTION 27
its script etc. it might be presumed to belong to the end of the 17th
century or thereabouts, though in the absence of the final colophon,
nothing definite can be said about the copyist or the date of copying.
Ms I, mentioned in the critical apparatus, but not described
here represents the text prepared by DERĀSARĪ from four sources, three
of which have been used in the present edition (namely B, D, and the
Śāḻāpatra text).
Assuming that, where DERĀSARĪ's text records a reading, not
found in any of the MSS used in the present edition, it might perhaps
belong to the ख MS which was inaccessible to me, a few of such readings
from I divergent from the other variants are recorded in this edition.
In this connection I₁ refers to DERĀSARĪ's first edition, I₂ the second
edition, and merely I stands for both the editions, where they agree
with one another. I₁ (ख) indicates ख MS used by DERĀSARĪ, from which
some variants are noted in the first edition in the footnotes.
Only a few such variants have been noted in the present edition
in this way, for, it was found that the divergence was often due to a
faulty deciphering of the manuscripts. Occasionally readings from
I₁ or I₂ are noted only to draw attention to this fact.
Another source, namely the text published by the late Naval-
rām Lakshmīrām PANDYĀ, in the ‘Gujarāt Śāḻāpatra’ of 1877–1878¹
was accessible to me, but has not been utilized in the present edition.
The reason is that the Śāḻāpatra text is a verbatim transcription of
the D MS. The Śāḻāpatra text commences with the praśasti कान्हडदे
प्रबंध and ends with a colophon :
इति कान्हडेप्रबंध चतुर्थखंड समाप्त ही सं. १६३० माहा सुद २ वार भोमे ऋषभप्रसादात् गां.
बीसानयरे सं । पं. कल्याणविजयजि तत् शिष्य मु मोतिचंद तथैव दयाविजयजी चतुर्मासे कृत्वा ।
which is identical with the colophon found in the D MS.
Besides, several mistakes, as shown below, have crept in the
Śāḻāpatra text during the process of printing.
Khaṇḍa Verse D Ms Śāḻāpatra text
I 8 राज जा राज
” 13 सुपई छुपाई
” 14 तरवाणूं भरकाणूं
” 15 महितइं, छूटीइं महिमइं, सुटीइं
1 The text of the Kānhaḍade Prabandha appears in the issues of the Śāḻāpatra from
January 1877–April 1877, June 1877–July 1877, September 1877–October 1877,
December 1877–February 1878, May 1878 (concluded)

28 KĀNHAḌAḌE PRABANDHA
Khaṇḍa Verse D Ms Śālāpātra text
" 17 अपकिरत्ती अपकीरती
" 19 पहिल्हिं पहेलुं
" 21 पातसाह पातशाह
" 23 साभली सांभळी
" 28 पसाउ पसात
" 35 वदीतु वदीउ
" 36 तासु भासु
" 40 परठीइ परठेइ
" 41 टमकि पेसडु टमकिये सडु
" 59 दहोत्तर दडोत्तर
Several of these mistakes are, evidently, the result of
misreading the manuscript.
The late Navalrām Pāṇḍyā prefixed a note¹ in the first number
of the Śālāpatra (January, 1877) in which the publication of the
Kānhaḍade Prabandha commences. He said therein that he was
publishing the poem, Kānhaḍade Prabandha, from the manuscript sent
to him by Dr. Bühler, to give the readers an idea of the Old Gujarātī
language. As he had only one manuscript he had refrained from any
emendation of the text. He had intended to give a glossary of difficult
words and discuss the grammar of Old Gujarātī at the end. However,
he did not live long enough to fulfil this promise.
This text, being a verbatim transcript of the D ms, was entirely
useless for purposes of collation.
1 Vide “घणाना धारवामा एम छे के गूजराती भाषा हाल जेम बोलाय छे तेम ज नरसिंह महेताना वखतथी
बोलाती आवे छे पण ए देखीती ज भूल छे. एटल वर्ष सुधी भाषा विकार न पामे ए जनस्वभाव अने सघळा देशनी
भाषाओना इतिहासथी उलटुं छे.
आ बाबत आ पत्रना एक वार जूना ग्रंथोना प्रमाण आपी अमे केटलो फेरफार थयो छे, ते काइक बताव्युं हतुं.
हाल आपणा विद्वान इन्स्पेक्टर महेरवान डाक्टर बुल्हर साहेबनी तर्फथी 'कान्हडदे प्रबंध' ए नामनुं एक जूनुं काव्य अमने
मल्युं छे. ए पणसे वर्षनी पहेला लखायलुं छे. एनो विषय गूजरात उपर अल्लाउद्दीने सवारी करी ते छे अने एमां वीर तथा
अद्भुत रसनु प्राधान्य छे. एनो नायक झालोरनो कान्हान्हदेव राजा छे. एना युद्धना तथा कूचना वर्णनो स्वाभाविक,
आबेहूब छे. अंहिया एने महीने महीने प्रगट करवाने विचार कर्यो छे तेनु मुख्य कारण तो ए छे के गूजरातना विद्वानोना
हाथमा जूनी भाषानु एक सळंग पुस्तक आवे. जूनी गुजरातीनुं व्याकरण आपवानो अमारो विचार छे, पण ते पहेलां आवो
एकाद ग्रंथ बहार पडे ए अमने वधारे सारु लागे छे.
प्रत छे ते प्रमाणे ज अंहिया छापीय छइय. एमा एके अक्षरनो पण फेरफार करता नथी. कोइ ठेकाणे भूल छेवुं
लखनारनी तरफनु अमने भासे छे, तोपण ज्यां सुधी केटलीएक प्रत अमारा हाथमां आवी नथी त्यां सुधी तेने छेडवुं ए
अमने व्याजी लगतु नथी. जूनी भाषा हालथी केटली जूदी हती ते आ उपरथी सहेल मालम पडशे उलटि देखत तो ए
छे के वेटनगरथी ए समजाशे न नहि तेमने हमारी भलामण छे के धीरजथी आ काव्य वांचवुं, अने पाठ्य भणे शाला-
पत्रना जूनी भाषा बाबत राइ रह्यु छे ते उपर लक्ष राखवु. एमां आविला कठिन शब्दनों कोष तथा व्याकरणनियम
पाटळथी आपवानो अमारो विचार छे.”
—'Śālāpatra', January, 1877

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.