Vol. I, No. 3.] Pavana-dutam, or Wind-Messenger. AE. 
[N. 8.] 
Pavana-diitam, or Wind-Messenger, by Dhoyika, a court-poet of 
Laksmanasena, king of Bengal, with an Appendix on the Sena. 
kings.—By Monmowan Cuakravartl, M.A., M.R.A.S. 
ae 
This poem was first rasa af ree notice by our Philo-- 
logical Secretary Maha past adhyaya 
2 a ah Pandit ieee Castri in “ Notices ‘of 
Sanskrit MSS.,” Second Series, vol. I, part II, pp. 221. 2, (No. 225). 
A brief abstract of its contents was read by him in the Proceed- 
ings of this Society for July 1898, which was iphaeiegte with 
some variations in his gh niaae to the above “ Notices,” pp. xxxvii- 
viii. He described the MS. ‘a discovery of some importance,” 
and rightly, for before ree no nes of Dhoyika was known, and 
even up to now this MS. is the only copy known. Its owner Pandit 
Raghuram Tarkaratna of Visnupur, District Bankura, has, at the: 
instance of its present subdivisional officer Babu Atal Behari gee 
kindly lent me the MS., and has thus enabled me to edit t 
xt. 
The MS., on scat country paper, consists of 12 leaves 
(or rather 23 pages), 133” x33". It was 
The MS. apparently part of alarge MS. , for theleaves: 
are numbered on the left At from 151 to 162. The text, five or- 
six lines to.a page, is 10}”x 113”, and has besides marginal 
and generally legible. The colophon states that the MS. was copied 
by one Ramagati in Caka 1752 Karttika sita, or A.D. 1830, 
October-November, bright half (of the lunar month), Ramagati is. 
father of the present owner. In the text are various omissions. 
and mistakes, some of which have been corrected in the margin. 
apparently by the copyist himself. The marginal notes are 
and give no help in difficult or deficient passages. I have therefore: 
the conjectural 
emendations bei din small brackets, and the omissions in 
larger tire with asterisks. Several passages, however, still 
remain 
The Se has 104 stanzas, all in the metre Mandakranta. It 
Contents. was composed i in imitation of Kalidésa’s lyre: 
re 
verses can be tra 
ch imitations of Kalidasa’s poem a 
Su 
Imitations of not infrequent in later Banskrit herataea: 
Moghadutam. as a vis Eateeoie list will show 
1. Uddhava-ditam, (vv. 141), by Madhava Kavindra 
hattaca: S Talitanagara (Printed in J. Wane 
sagara’s irmtatsngeaie, Calcutta). v4 
