228 = Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [November, 1905. 
29. Vidyapati Thakur—By G. A. Grierson, C.LE., PaD., 
D. Litr., Honorary Member of the ar ae Society of Bengal. 
1 have read with great interest the account of the collection 
of Vidyapati’s poems, which is given by Baba Nagendra Nath 
Gupta on pp. 20 and ff. of the Extra No of Vol. UXXII, Part 
I, of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. He has been 
me about twenty-three years ago. In order to facilitate his 
labours, may I state at once that I have learnt a good deal since 
then, and that I by no means maintain all that I wrote about 
Vidyapati in 1882. 
Babi Nagendra Nath Gupta refers to the deed of gift of the 
village of Bisphi as if he considered it to be a genuine document. 
I am afraid that this contention can hardly be sustained. The 
ge. contains a date in the Fasli San, and that date was long 
before the Fasli era had been invented. He will find a facsimile 
t to be spurio 
mee “96 of Vol. LXVII reise, Part I, ot es 3 Journal. See 
Dr. E ggeling’s Catalogue of Sanskrit MSS. in the Tndia Office 
Library, V, No. 2864. 
The following list “ articles on Vidyapati may be usefu los 
J. Beames. The Early Vaishnava Poets of Bengal. Indian 
Antiquary, II, 1873, p -4 TV 
J. — On Age and Country of Vidyapate. Tbid. IV, 
1875, p. 2 
ie in the Banga-dargan, Vol. IV, 1282 B.S. (Jyaistha ), 
arada-caran Maitra. Introduction to Vidydpatir Padavali. 
Recut edition, Calcutta, 1285, B. 
G. A. Grierson, Vidyapati and His Contemporaries. Indian 
Antiquary, Me XIV, 1885, p. 182. -d 
G. erson. On some Medizval Kings of Mithila. Ibid. 
Vol. XXVIII, 1899, p. 57. th 
Pandit Chanda Jha, referred to by Babi Nagendra Na h 
a dot has published a useful edition of the Sanskrit text of 5° 
ss, D 
a valuable Appendix dealing with historical que estions, and con- 
taining frequent quotations from the Kiértti-lata, a work of Vidya- 
pati pore written in the Maithili of his time. If these quotations 
they show that the vernacular of the poet's - 
differed wisi from modern Maithili, and was rather form 0 
ra 
pe 
Sastri discovered a collection of rape poems * 
Népal in the year 1 99. e was kind enough to send me @ i 8 
of one of them, whic wed much the same Prakritic 
sh 
ance. I had published a current version of the same song 1 
