1875.] J. Beames— The Rhapsodies of Gamlhir Bdi. 201 



The manuscript belongs to the Hon'ble E. C. Bayley, for whom it was 

 copied from the original in his possession of the Baja of Nurpur. The copy 

 ends abruptly, and it is probable that it has not been completed. The Baja 

 was unwilling to allow the copy to be taken, and now states that the origi- 

 nal has been lost. We must therefore make the best of the present text. 

 The work is in two parts, the first part ends on page 57, where the second 

 part begins with the words ^R TT5TT wrerciW ^T^TtI WTrT f^'^" 3H" ^HJT Tjm~ 

 ^T 3TT *T^ *n«P*Trrr II " Now begin the poems of Baja Mandhata, grandson 

 of Jagat Singh, son of Bajriip, Mandhata." The Muhammadan historians 

 do not mention any person as Mandhata : the succession, according to them 

 passed from Jagat's son Bajrup to another son, Bhao Singh, who turned 

 Musalman, and took the name of Murid Khan. Who this Mandhata was 

 is therefore uncertain, but the word is a title rather than a proper name, 

 and may therefore be used of some person known to the historians by a diffe- 

 rent name. 



I now give text and translation of the invocation and the first twelve 

 kavitas. 



f%^ *TT3 tH£ WTcT || 



§ «TH3 ^*T *TTW i^T ^T*T WQX % || 

 ^*T<3W% TcT ^TTTcf 1%^ ^-R II 

 H^ % H^T^ "41* *§** 7U^ WT % n 



^rii" ^Tk mv] %T3i ^x tt* i W¥*r xri% 



^t^t TJTcT^TT'Wt *R*n§ ^TT^ mm % || 



vit f ^ t^ ^icr srir % ^i*fi % II 

 mix ^ *rta ^k *i% wfa WT5ft % ll 



