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1886.] Kavi Raj Sliyamal Das —On the Prithi Bdj Bdsd. 
(2.) In the Braj Bhasha and other Hindi dialects, called Pingal in 
Rajputana. [The literal meaning of ‘ Pingal ’ is a “ Treatise on Prosody.”] 
All kinds of verses are in reality habits, bnt the term is restricted 
here to two, viz., Chhappai* and Manoharan ; in like manner the poetry 
of Braj Bhasha came to be called Pingal in the Rajputana phraseology. 
Pingal is written always in one and the same style—but the poets 
of Rajputana mingle the idioms of Pingal and their native expressions 
in Pingal : hence the poetry of this Province bears no resemblance 
to that of Agra, Delhi and Beuares &c. provinces. 
It should be remembered that there is some difference between the 
poetical and colloquial dialects of Rajputana. 
The poem is thus proved to have been composed in (or at least by a 
poet of) Rajputana. 
II. 
The Prithi Raj Rasa was not written in Prithi Raj’s time, or by 
Chand, but later. 
I shall prove this first by quoting passages from the poem, and 
then refuting them. 
The dates and eras given in the poem are for the most part incorrect : 
e. y., the year of Prithi Raj’s birth is given as follows :—■ 
(a.) \ ^ ^ 
if U I. 46.t 
Translation, 
In the auspicious year 1115 of Yikram’s era was born Raja Prithi 
Raj to take his enemy’s territory, 
(5.) A little further on we find the following : 
I 
Cv vJ 
\ ^ I 
« ^fl I 
vj 
II 
*■ Lit. a verse having six feet. 
t [The references given by the author being to MSS. in his own possession and 
not accessible to the public, have been corrected in accordance with the complete 
list of the cantos of the Prithiraj Rasa given by me in Proceedings A. S. B. for 1872, 
p. 62. Ed.] 
