Tenth Report on Search of Hindi Manuscripts for Years 1917 to 1919

SR No.: 010837
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Rai Bahaddur Hiralal
Publisher: Allahabad Government Press
Publication Year: 1929
Total Pages: 532
Language: Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 38 MB

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SEARCH OF HINDI MANUSCRIPTS.
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Rājā Nanda is credited with somo poems about 1080 A. D. followed by Māsūd, Kutub Ali, Sāidāna and Akram Faiz, who are said to have flourished between 1123 and 1148 A. D. Not a line of these seven poets has been yet found. Next comes Chanda Baradās whose writings are extant. He flourished in 1191 A. D. In this state of our knowledge it was natural that the Superintendent of the search work should have been highly elated at the discovery of two poets, whoso works appeared to be dated in the years 9433 and 1190 A. D. The first was Bhuvāla, who wrote a translation of Bhag vat Gītā in Doha and Chauphi verses and gave the date of the composition which was read as follows :
संवत कर अब करौं वखाना । सहस्र सा संपूरन जाना। माघ मास कृष्ण पक्ष भयऊ । दुतिया रवि तृतिया जा भयऊ ॥
This was interpreted to mean that the book was composed in the expired Vikrama Samvat 1000 in the Křislıņa paksha of Māgha on Sunday the 2nd tithi which oventually becaino 3rd. No effort was made to verify whether these tithis foll on a Sunday in the dark fortnight of Māgha in that Samvat. The Sainvat year was at once taken as correct and an offort was made to explain away the modernity of the diction, which went to show that the book could not be so old as the 10th century A. D. When the writer of the report put it to the test, a difference of 700 years was found. It was in the Vikrama Samvat 1700, that the dvitiyū of the dark fortnight of Māgha fell on a Sunday and remained current up till about 11 a.m. when tritiyū commenced, the corresponding English date being 17th December, 1643 A. D. The correct reading of the Samvat stauza milst therefore have been EE AT HT Ta HT3, that is in the year when 1000 and 700 had been completed, which is borne out by the style of the writer, who was really & post-Tulasi poet and tried to imitate that great master in Dohū and Chaupūs verses, which the latter made so popular. The second old author was Mohaualāla Dvija, who was