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General Editor's Note
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Since its first publication by late Prof. K.H. Dhruva in 1892, the Vasanta Vilasa Phagu has aroused accelerating degree of interest and attention among all students of Old Western Rājasthani literature and art. Since then several editions at the hands of different scholars have appeared? and continuous discoveries of fresh materials, valuable for its textual or formal study, have maintained lively interest in the subject.
The present edition utilizes all the known codices of V.V. and gives the collated text of both the recensions, keeping in tact the verse order. Prof. Modi has fully described his critical apparatus, has contributed few fresh points to the discussion of the Phagu-form (even though the literature on the subject is now swelling) and has, above all, systematically tackled the tangled problem of the orthographic variants in OWR manuscripts by explaining their nature and by classifying them under different heads. This supplements, the earlier efforts of Jacobi, Alsdorf, myself and others to tackle Apabhram'sa and OWR orthographies. One important consequence of the orthographical analysis is that Prof. Modi could correctly identify the metre of Vasantavilāsa, which has proved a stumbling block to most of the editors.
Even though the Phāgus were composed by dozens in early Gujarati-Rajasthani literature and many of them are published, 3 v.v. still maintains its unique position due to its secular character, its
1 The latest to appear is the very sumptuously published American Oriental Series
edition (1962) prepared by Prof. Norman Brown which, besides giving the text of both the recensions, all the variants, English translation and vocabulary, describes
and reproduces all the preserved paintings from the scroll MS. 2 Cf. Jacobi in the introductions to his editions of the Bhavisatta Kaha and
Sanatkumaracarita; Alsdorf, Der Kumarapalapratibodha, pp. 52-53, 209-211; Harivams'apurana, Introduction: Bharatesvara Bahubali Rasa, Introduction,
Sarides'ara saka, Introduction, pp. 2-7; Paumacariu, I, Introduction. pp. 52-56. 3 See especially Pracina Phagu Sangraha, ed. by B. ). Sandesara and S. Parekh,
Baroda, 1960.
| SR No. | 010758 |
| Book Title | Vasant Vilas Fagu |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Madhusudan Chimanlal Modi |
| Publisher | Rajasthan Prachyavidya Pratishthan Jodhpur |
| Publication Year | 1960 |
| Total Pages | 145 |
| Language | Sanskrit, Hindi |
| Classification | Book_Devnagari |
| File Size | 7 MB |