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[No. 1, 
Kavi Raj Sliyamal Das —On the Prithi Raj Rasa. 
the Princes of Mewar in high terms, with a view to persuade them to 
connive at the facts and admit the narrative to be true, so that the 
Princes of the other Rajputana States might also be led to believe it, 
as really happened. 
The author ascribed the poem to Chand Bardai, and did not men¬ 
tion his own name, as he was afraid he would not be believed. 
I. 
There is not the least doubt that the epic was composed in Raj¬ 
putana (or by a poet of the Province) as it teems with terms and ex¬ 
pressions commonly used in the poetry of this Province, and not found 
in that of Braj Bhasha or any other eastern dialect of India. 
In the opening stanzas of the poem we have 
(a.) W Adi Parva, 2nd Chhappai Chhand. 
(6.) sft i 
II A. P. 4th Bhujanga-prayati. 
In these lines the words ” and 
** ” belong to the poetry of Rajputana. 
(c.) In the dJchet chuh canto occurs the couplet— 
^ I 
^ ll 5th Chhappai. 
Here means ‘ to kill treacherously,’ a sense in which it is 
never used in any other part of Hindustan. 
In the Journal A. S. B. referred to in the preceding footnote, p. 175 
Mr. Beames says: “ Chand always puts an anuswara to the last syllable ' 
of his words when writing Gatha. He seems to be under the impression 
that by doing so he is making them into Sanskrit.” 
But this was not the author’s meaning, he intended to turn the style 
into Magadhi or Bhala Bhasha, as poems composed three hundred years 
ago, were written generally in that tongue. The author had not himself 
studied the language, but had apparently heard of some Magadhi poems, 
and to make his own composition appear ancient, he used anuswdras; but 
unfortunately the words thus framed were neither Magadhi, Hindi, nor 
Sanskrit. It is plain from his use of anuswdras that he was totally 
ignorant of Sanskrit. 
Only a few examples are cited for shortness’ sake ; thousands of 
expressions could be quoted from the poem that are found only in the 
poetry of Rajputana. Any intelligent Hindi poet on devoting atten¬ 
tion to the poem would find it to be wholly in the style of the poets of 
Rajputana who compose two kinds of poetry :— 
(1.) In the Marwari dialect, called Bingal. 
