1917.] Bardic and Histl. Survey of Rajputana. 251 



bards always used to compare the liberality of their patrons to an 

 ocean, whereof each wave is a gift Of course, the cunning idea 

 underlying in the comparison is that as the waves of the ocean 

 are numberless, so should be numberless the gifts of a really 

 liberal Chief. The above comparison is made the subject of our 

 song, but it is further developed in that the krora-pasava, which 

 formerly represented the utmost a Chief could be expected to 

 give, is described as the boundary of the ocean, i.e. the shore 

 which Raya Singha has overrun, with the result that the earth 

 has been inundated and the other princes have been drowned 

 in the flood. 



The two manuscripts from which I have derived the text 

 of the song are : — A = _Descr. Cat. of Bard, and Hist. MSS., Sect, 

 ii, pt. i, MS. 6, p. 656, and B = Ditto, Sect, i, pt. ii, MS. 1, p. 2166. 

 In the latter manuscript, the song is attributed to Adho Duraso. 





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