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Rūsávali (G. O. S., Xo. 118, Baroda, 1956). It contains six poems in Old Gujarāti composed during the 14th and 15th .. centuries, representing different forms of literature like Rása, : Phāgu, Vinati, Caupai, etc. One of the poems, Virāça Parva
of Sälisūri, is throughout in syllabic metres. There is an exhaustive index verborum with etymological notes, and editing is very carefully donc. Ācārya Jinavijayaji has edited Uktiratnakara of Sadhusundarayani, who lived in the beginning of the 16th century A.D. (Rājasthan Purātana Granthamalā, no. 14, Jaipur, 1957). This work is an Auktika or Old Gujarātí treatise on Sanskrit grammar, and cvery Auktika gives a Sanskrit-Gujarāti vocabulary. All the specimens of this form are useful for linguistic study. Vesses Agarchand Kahata and Bhăvarlal Nahata have published Jñanasāra Granthāvali, part I (Calcutta, 1959). Jñanasāra was a Icarncd Yati who lived at Bikaner in the I8th century A.D. He was a Yogin and was also an adept in astrology and Ayurveda. This is a collection of his numerous compositions in Rajasthāni. The Xahata brothers have also brought out Samayasundaraksti-Kusumāñjali (Calcutta, 1957). It is a collection of 563 short poems, most of which are in Gujarāti-Rajasthani and a few in Sanskrit and Prakrit by the well-known poet Samayasundara who lived in the sixteenth century A.D. Both the books have very informative and useful Introductions, Prof. R. C. Shah has edited with notes the Kala-Davadanti Rāsa of Samayasundara ( Ahmedabad, 1957).
The Varnakasamuccaya, pt. I (Text), a collection of set descriptions in rhythmical prose in Old Gujarātí, was edited by me sometime back. (University of Baroda, 1956). Its second part containing a cultural study and full indices by myself and Dr. R. X. Blehta is very recently published (Baroda, 1959). The Vikramacaritra Rása ( 1509 A.D.) of Udayabhānu, cdited by the late Prof. P. K. Thakore, has been published with Introduction and index prepared by Dr. R. 31. Patel ( Baroda, 1957). Dr. R.M. Patel had edited for his Doctorate the Simhasana Batrisi ( 1463 A. D.) of Jalayacandra with a comparative study
