February, 1915.] Annual Address. xliii 
some heroes advancing with their naked swords in their hands: 
whilst the steady-minded emirs are transported with the jo 
(of the battle). The machine guns make the earth rattle and 
clatter, and the wavering flags spread on the ground.’’ 
From the above example of poetry of recent composition, 
one might possibly be induced to think that the bardic 
activity continues as lively as ever. Nothing can be a greater 
mistake. The bard of Jodhpur who celebrates the events in 
the modern European struggle is a rare exception. Now, 
Jodhpur has been from the very beginning a cradle of bards; 
only one year ago it could boast of'a Carana, the late Kaviraja 
Murari Dan, who was reputed the most learned bard in Raj- 
putana. But he too was rather a scholar than a professional 
bard, and his most famous work, the Jaswant Jasobhusan, is a 
work on rhetoric. The fact is that professional bards have 
and princely grants. The lakhpasao or donation of a lakh of 
rupees, which was common enough in former times, has become 
ag 
outbreak of the great European war must have been greeted 
with the utmost enthusiasm by the Carana Kisor Dan, 
himself. 
et me now turn to the prose chronicles. Under this 
term, T include all kinds of historical works in prose, for which 
im Marwari we have a great number of terms such as Khyata, 
of them. Taken together, these prose works form a ric 
literature, the interest of which is chiefly historical. Since 
these works have no literary claim and are not meant for 
