168 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, [May, 1906. 
No other work of ms . ay adere has yet been found. In some 
he Gitagovinda MSS. eight stanzas are 
5 Other Pf taous of added at the pad under the heading Ganga- 
ayadev 
stava-prabandhah whos se last line runs: 
bhanantam=tha s@daram dhira-Jayadeva-kavi.° In the S.K. a 
yeaa is quoted under Jayadeva referring to Gaud-endra. There 
are at least two other Jayadevas, Sanskrit poets, earlier than 
the 13th century; but none of them is known to have any concern 
with Gaudendra. Is this verse then taken from some unknown 
poem of the Gitagovinda-kara? In the S K. besides this verse! 
(and the two taken from the Gitagovinda), 28 more are quoted 
under the name Jayadeva ; they cannot be traced in the Prasanna- 
Raghava of the dramatist Jayadeva, or the candr-dloka of the 
rhetorician Jayadeva. Possibly some of them may be from an 
unknown poem of our Bengal Jayadeva 
© poem was more popular in India than the Gita- govinda. 
The Popularity Numerous MSS. of it lie scattered in differ- 
of the Gita-govin- ent parts of India from Kasmir and Nepal ‘ 
da. The search for Saskia 
powerful king Kumbhakarna himself as the commentator. The 
poem has been imitated in works like the Rama-gita-govinda, 
ee and others. It has been several times trams 4 
among the quasi-sacred works of the Vaisnavas ; and its songs were : 
repeatedly sung by Caitanya and his followers in their processions. i 
A remarkable testimony to its _ae.greak ity is borne out_b 
As testified inscriptions. Ina riya inscription of Pari 
inscriptions. by . ssotbba Taky, a.D. 1499, the king Pratapa- 
before nates Jagannatha and Balardma Re ASB, uxt, 1893, 
pp. 96-7). In another inscription dated £9th Jane, a.p. 1292, * 
okt eee 
TahifegapReaE? a ay UAH 
Ba: aemagegcaemgarg aT: | : 
Mau faustsHEHIePT RaThia | : 
vafufafaumaraaaat getfaqerad |) wazaw | : 
‘ 
ea, 8.K., IIT, 11°5, fol. 123a. | 
€ reader will note the alliterations in each line, 4 
at 2 oar as yet unedited, was found on a stone recovered 
din : ivision, Baroda, from a tank w “ 
ei 1956 aga nie work. The date runs in the 
