4 Further Notes on the JPrithiraj-rdyasa. [No. 1, 



In connection with Kalinjar, mention is made of a famous tirtha, 

 called in the Benares MS. Mrigadhdra (Vol. XXXVII. page 180). 

 This I imagine must be a clerical error for Mrigd-ddva, the deer-forest, 

 the legend regarding which place is given in an Appendix to Sher- 

 ring's Sacred City of the Hindus. 



I have lately received two MS. fragments of the Prithiraj -rayasa, 

 which have been hunted up for me by Raja Lakshman Sifih (a Rahtor 

 Thakur) of this district. The one consists of 55 folio pages and is 

 entitled " Sri Kabi Chand virachite Prathiraj-raisai ke bari beri raja 

 grahano nama kahao." The date is Sambat 1856. It refers to 

 events in the Muhammadan war, and I have not yet discovered any 

 corresponding section in the Benares text. The second MS. consists 

 of 110 octavo pages, and is headed simply " Samao Mahobe ko." 

 The title is given more fully at the end thus " Sri Mahobe juddh 

 raja Parimal Prithiraj Mahobe-Khand varnanam Alha-Khand Chand 

 Kabi virachitam." The date of the copy is 1881, Sambat. 



It omits the introductory legend of Anangpal and the Iron Pillar, 

 with the genealogies of the Chandels and Banaphars, which constitute 

 the two first cantos of the Benares MS., and relates instead how 

 Prithiraj carried off Padmavati, the daughter of Prince Padma-sen, 

 from Samud-Sikhari, a strong fort in the east.* On his way back 

 to Dilli, he falls in with the Pathan forces under Sahab-ud-din and 

 Momrez Khan of Khurasanf and defeats them with great loss. He 

 is obliged however to leave 50 of his own wounded on the field, 

 who with a few other Rajputs under Gun-manjari, Kanak Sinh 

 and Sardar lose their way and wander off to Mahoba, where they 

 proceed to encamp in one of king Parmal's gardens. All this is omit- 

 ted from the Benares MS., the third canto of which" begins in a very 

 confused way with the arrival of the 50 wounded men at Mahoba. 

 The rape of Padmavati and the engagement with the Muhammadans 

 receive only such casual mention as would be quite unintelligible, if 

 the other MS. had not supplied the missing details. 



From the 3rd to the 13th canto, the two narratives may be said" 

 to coincide, since with the exception of a very few occasional lines, 



* The date is given as 1130 Saka — Gyara Sai das bis Sakha Sambat pari- 

 matiam — this must be an error, unless some local era is intended. 



f In describing the Muhammadan army, occurs the following line. Panch 

 Balms aswar, agenti golam, i. e. 5000 horse and artillery innumerable. 



