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NOTES ON AUTHORS.
(18) Chaubisa Lilā. (19) Hinḍorā.
(20) Śri-Braja-premananda-sāgara.
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In addition he wrote a number of smaller works in the form of Samaya-prabhandha like no. 5 above, Ashṭayama and Ashṭakas, Velis and Pachisis. A Pachisi is not restricted to 25 verses, but sometimes covers seven times 25 or 175 verses as in the case of no. 5 above. In his book no. 6 which was finished in 1774 A. D. the poet mentions that he then lived in Kishanagadh, having been taken there by Vriddhi-simha, son of Raja Bahadur-sinha of that place from the Braja country, which was threatened by Jamana or Muhammadan's attacks. But Bahadur-simha was not the Rājā himself. He was brother to the Mahāräna Savanta Simha otherwise known as Nagarīdāsa. The poet originally came from Fushkara side but mostly lived in Braja.
No. 35. CHANDA, the famous poet Chanda Bardai was born about 1126 A. 1). and lived up to 1199 A. D. He wrote the Padmavati Khanda found in this search. He has been several times referred to in the previous reports.
No. 36. CHANDA is a newly discovered poet, who translated Hitopadesa in Doha and Chaupai verses in the Samvat year 1563-1506 A. D. or prior to Tulasidāsa. The manuscript in hand was copied in Samvat 1665 during the life-time of Tulasidasa, by a Jaina Bania named Tikāmalla Narayana Chanda at Jaunpur during the reign of Sah Salim, the eldest son of Akbar on Friday Kartika Sudi Saptami, which regularly corresponds to Friday the 4th November, 1508 A. D. Akbar had died three years before and yet it appears that the title of Jahangir which Salim adopted on ascending the throne had not become well known when the manuscript was copied. The copyist calls him Badsah Salim and establishes the identity by noting that he was the eldest son of Śrī Sah
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