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Kavi Raj Sliyamal Das— On the Prithi Baj Bdsd. [No. 1, 
(= A. D. 1582), he commenced living at Akbar’s Court: since that time 
the intercourse of the Mar war poets became more frequent, and severa 
other famous Hindi poets got encouragement at the same time, e. g.\ 
Gosain Tulsi Das, Kesav Das, Sur Das, Barhuts Narhar Das, Tswar 
Das, and Lakha &c., &c., and a greater proportion of Persian words 
found way in the poems of Hindi produced in Rajputana. 
On perusing the ‘ Prithi Raj Rasa ’ Persian words are found to 
exist in it in the proportion of 1 : 8, or 1 : 10 to Hindi, Marwari and 
Sanskrit words or to those of any other Indian dialect. 
After S. 1640 (= A. D. 1583), the people of Mewar commenced 
intercourse with the Imperial Darbar: the Maha Rana of the time 
(Pratap Singh) did not go there, but some of his relatives, who were 
dissatisfied with him, did go, as for instance Shakat Singh, Jagmal and 
Sagar Singh, and many poets accompanied them; and Persian words 
came to be greatly introduced in the poems of Mewari and Marwari 
tongues. 
The ‘ Prithi Raj Rasa ’ was in my humble opinion composed at 
some date during the thirty years between S. 1640 A. D. 1583) and 
S. 1670 (= A. D. 1613) ; which I proceed to show:— 
I. In the Hammir Kavya composed about S. 1540-42 (A. D. 
1484-86), which describes the battles fought by Chauhan Hammir and 
liis ancestors, the description given of the battle between Prithi Raj 
and Shahabuddin Ghori, does not agree with that given in the ‘ Rasa ; ’ 
neither do the genealogical tables of the Ohauhans agree in these two 
poems. 
It is a matter of common sense that, if a standard work like the 
‘Prithi Raj Rasa’ had been composed before the ‘Hammir Kavya,’ 
the author of the latter would certainly have borrowed facts from it. 
II. Had the ‘ Rasa ’ been composed even a century or two after 
Rawal Samar Singh’s time, mistakes of so serious a nature could not 
have occurred, as are actually seen. We generally do not find such mis¬ 
takes in the Samvats or dates of kings who lived two, or two and a half 
centnries before a history is written. 
Thus it follows, the ‘ Rasa ’ was composed about three centuries after 
Samar Singh’s time ; and the latter lived about a hundred* years after 
Prithi Raj. 
Hence it follows that the ‘ Prithi Raj Rasa ’ was fabricated about 
four centuries after Prithi Raj’s or Chand’s age; and the author based 
his fabric on some corrupt history. 
* Prithi Raj died in S. 1249. Rawal Samar Singh rnled till about S. 1344; 
the difference in their periods is thus 1344 — 1249 = 95 years. 
