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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APPENDIX I.
in Vikrama Samvat 1700 expired, finishing it in the dark fortnight of the Magha mouth on Dvitiya, a Sunday, on which the Tritiya also commenced. This regularly corresponds to 17th December, 1643, A. D. which fell on a Sunday and on which Krishna Dvitiya was current till about 11 a.m. after which the Tritiya commenced. A misreading of the date stanza gave rise to the theory that this post-Tulasi poet wrote his book in the 10th century A. D., which his diction belied and which led to the examination of the details of the date confirming that the true year was 1700. The point has been more fully discussed in para. 6 of the report.
No. 28. BIHĀRIDĀSA wrote Kavittas on the Dohas of the well-known poet Bihāri. He is, however, not mentioned in Ambikadatta Vyasa's Bihari-bihara in which the latter has collected all information regarding compositions based on Bihari's Dohās. These number as many as 28 including those by Sir George Grierson and himself, thus bringing the information up to the end of the 19th century. Apparently Bihāridasa's Kavittas did not catch his eagle eye. Bihāridasa was an able embellisher. He introduces the subject in Braja Bhashā prose before he recites his Kavittas and incidently discovers his nativity. The Misra-Bandhus mention a Bihāridasa Brajabasi, but appear to confuse him with a Jain poet of the same name, who wrote Sambodhi-pañchasika and flourished in the middle of the 17th century. The time of Bihārīdāsa under notice is not known.
No. 29. BIRABHADRA is a newly discovered poet, who composed a book named Phāgalila. The manuscript was written in the year 1830 A. D. No other details are available. •
No. 30. BODHA is a brilliant poet of erotic school to whom love was god. Apparently this was an outcome of personal experience for which he suffered banishment for six months. He was attached to a courtezan on rejoining