1919.] Bardic and Hisil. Survey of Rajputana. 17 
C.102: utfeat Sra, 109 leaves. 
From MS. No. 27 of Deser. Cat., Sect. i, pt. ii (c, pp. 3la- 
9a). 
C.103: Bare urfeatait = ara, 5 leaves. 
From MS. No. 22 of Deser. Cat., Sect. i, pt. ii (xxiv, 
pp. 3585-359d). 
C.104: Ua as xt ata, 9 leaves. 
From MS. No. 28 of Deser. Cat., Sect. i, pt. ii (a). 
C.105: Ua wactapst I Fel alts ateceTa uo 
ateat, 49 leaves. 
From the same MS. as C. 91 (pp 1186-1526). 
C.106: Wa Sree a afea Fat Ata a 
*HTSaT, 9 leaves. 
From the same MS. (pp. 284-89). 
APPENDIX I. 
RAJASTHANI CHRONICLES. 
Last year in appendix to my “Progress Report’ I gave a 
few specimens of bardic poetry, and I propose to do the same 
this year with regard to the prose chronicles, the other of the 
two great sections in which the bardic and historical saa 
important. Though Col. J. Tod first in his “Annals and = 
tiquities of Rajasthan ” and Mr. A. K. Forbes afterwards in his 
** Ras Mala ’’ have made accessible to the public, in a popular 
form, a considerable part of what forms the subject of this 
chronical literature, yet the two books above-mentioned are 
hardly calculated to convey an accurate idea of what a Rajput 
chronicle is. The fact is that both Col. Tod and Mr. Forbes 
were seeing the historical and literary documents in their hands 
not in the light of documents, but merely in the light of mines 
of information ; they confined themselves to exploiting the con- 
tents of the works, and did not pay any attention to the ques- 
tions of form, age, authorship, attendibility, etc. of the works 
themselves. In other words, they musicale ignored the 
critical examination of their sources, and when they exercised _ 
a criticism at all, this was a criticism of the events they were 
