xl Annual Address. [February, 1915. 
thani. This old Western Rajasthani language, called by the 
taken for simply the old Gujarati, Sir: George Grierson writes : 
‘«¢ We have thus a connected chain of evidence as to the growth 
of the Gujarati language from the earliest times. We can 
from the verses of Hemchandra down to the language of a 
Parsi newspaper. No single step is wanting. The line is com- 
plete for nearly four thousand years’’ (Linguistic Survey of 
India, Vol. ix, part ii, p. 327). 
But I will leave aside the linguistic importance of the 
Bardic productions here, and look at them from the literary 
and difficult studies requisite to form a Kavisvara. Amongst 
the many subjects which a Carana had to master before he 
possess. No wonder, then, if many of the productions of thesé 
smauee to make poetry more attrac 
tive is ever neglected. One of these devices, the most chara 
