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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years later as given in the manuscript found. The poet apparently lived somewhere near Āgrā.
No. 107. LALADĀSA, a resident of Bareilly, composed his book named Avadha-viläsa in Ajodhya in the Samvat year 1700, which is equal to 1643 A.D. This book has been noticed in some previous reports also (see no. 32 of 1901, no. 190 (c) of 1906-1908 and no. 169 of 1909-11).
NOTES ON AUTHORS.
No. 108. MAHĀMATI or Mahamanta appears to be the nom-de-guerre of some poot, who apparently was a better Persian scholar than a Hindi one. He has in his Hindi works, followed the style of Persian writers and in his love poems he aims at earthly as well as heavenly love. He wrote Parikrama, Pragaṭabani, Sambandha, Sagara and Kirtana which deal with Vedanta philosophy and devotion. All the manuscripts named above are contained in one volume and were apparently written the same year which is given as San 1230 which is apparently Anno Hijri-1815 A.D. The poet must therefore have flourished before that date. His style bristles with Persian idioms and even phraseology and the mistakes of pronounciation to which Persian scholars are liable, for instance, Mahamati writes faz for æfe.
No. 109. MALŪKADĀSA Bābā of Kaḍā, District Allāhābad. He was born in 1574 A. D. and died in 1682 A. D., thus enjoying a long life of 108 years. He composed Jñanabodha and Rāmavatāra-lilā Rāmāyaṇa, which have been just discovered. It is said that this Malukadāsa was different from his Khattri namosake of Kalpī, which is very doubtful. At any rate there is at present no material to differentiate them, except that one is believed to belong to Kaḍa and the other to Kalpi. A long-lived person like Malukadasa may well have been claimed as belonging to different localities, as he lived in each place for a considerable time. At any rate their poetry has been so mixed up, that it would be difficult to separate, should two distinct individuals