Vasant Vilas Fagu

Author(s): Madhusudan Chimanlal Modi
Publisher: Rajasthan Prachyavidya Pratishthan Jodhpur

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[ 2 ] surpassing poetic qualities and its earlier age. Very few of the other Phāgus could cmulate its excellence in sonorous but cffortless phrasing, its lilting verse movement and its rapid succession of chisellcd images.
The problems of the authorship and date of V. V., I have already touched upon in my foreword to Prof. K.B. Vyas' 1943 edition. There I have stated, ''I would like to place the work in thc Vastupāla era (Circa V.S. 1300), although there is no positive cvidence bearing on this point." Regarding the authorship I suggested that possibly the word Muñja in the compound Muñjavayana in the concluding stanza punningly suggests the name of the author. Thercafter several scholars have discussed this matter, but no fresh evidence or argument has emerged, such as can conipel a change of view on my part.
Besides the introduction and the text, Prof. Modi has provided a glossarial index and notes, which are rich in historical and comparative information and are bound to prove useful for the linguistic study of OWR.
The Rajasthan Puratana Granthamala is grateful to Prof. Modi for preparing this standard edition of a deservedly famous OWR poem, and we may well proclaim with the author of V.V. that
___ धनु धनु ते गुणवंत वसंतविलासु जि गाई ।
-MUNI JINAVIJAYA
Rajasthan Oriental Research Institute, Branch : Chittoďgadh (Rajasthan) 28-2-'63.
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