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.
can give the meaning of 1200 GTCT ATài will give the meaning of 1800. The word oTTE can easily be misread or miscopied as atit. The overlapping of the vertical stroke for the mātrā of a (a) with the letter o would turn it into a. The reading then would become are which the transcriber could not but have taken as standing for the well known art and copied accordingly. It is possible some one may ask how the initial # of HOTTE was dropped. But it is a common poetical licence found in other authors of that century, for instance, in his Dhruva-charita Somanātha gives the date as follows :
संवत ठारह से बरम बारह जेठ सुमास ।
कृष्ण त्रयोदशि वार भृगु भयो ग्रंथ परकास ॥ The use of wat atar for 47 would be childish for a poet of Mohanalāla's capacity. Further on Arga Ķet (which does not stand scanning having a mātrā in excess of the required number) would be meaningless without giving the tithi day. It is clear from the context that the writer intended to give the full details of the date on which he completed his work and har tat must therefore be a migreading for prä arat and that साउन could not but be a misreading for सनउ or सनी (Saturday) and that in the next line ATI was wrougly put down for सावन, the month pleasing to the mind ( मनरंगो). These corrections which remove metrical defects and give sense accord with the fact that the seventh of bright Srāvaņa in Samyat 1800 Vikrama yoar was actually a Saturday. This is further confirmed by the use of certain words and idioms, for instance, DETT, HIG, futat, rat, That, TM, “dat gaa GT8," "afer Tat guft” which could hardly belong to the 12th century. Moreover, one cannot help thinking that Mohanalala borrowed words for his invocatory dohū from Kesavadāsa's Rasikapriyā which was written in Samvat 1648. Kesavadāsa's invocation in the Rasikapriyā is in