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1886.] Kavi Kaj Sbyamul Das —On the Prithi Raj Rasa. 
the Akbarnama, but I have not been able to trace any mention of a 
Doganw. 
No. 9. (? Sirsa Banaras) is quite open to other readings, and I 
only offer this tentatively. I have not found any mention of such a 
place. Atak Banaras and Katak Banaras we know, but did Akbar 
ever christen any place Sirsa Banaras ? 
It will be noticed the falus struck at Narnol commence from the year 
962 A. H. or a year before Akbar’s accession, but the only inscription is 
“ Zao'h falus Ndrnol ” and the coinage at this place may possibly have 
been continuous from the time of Sher Shah to whose copper issue these 
pieces bear a marked likeness. 
It is perhaps not a little curious in connection with this one find that 
it should have included specimens of the whole twelve Persian months 
from Parwardin to Isfandarmuz, in many cases of several mints. 
The Antiquity, Authenticity and Genuineness of the Epic called The Prithi 
Kaj Kasa, and commonly ascribed to Chand Barddi*—By Kavi Kaj 
Shyamal Da's, M. K. A. S., Poet Laureate aiid Member of the State 
Council of Mewar. 
This famous Hindi epic—generally believed by scholars! to be the 
work of Chand Bardai, the court bard of Prithi Kaj Chauhan, and 
describing the latter’s history from his birth to his death—is not genuine, 
but was, in my humble opinion, fabricated several centuries after Chand’s 
time, by a bard or bhat of Kajputana, to show the greatness of his own 
caste and of the Chauhans, who had come to the province from other 
parts of the country, and were not held in great esteem by the Princes 
of Kajputana. 
The poem appears to have been composed by some literate bard 
of the family of Kothdria or Bedld Chauhans, to prove that they were 
related to the kings of Kajputana ; the author chanted the praise of 
■ * [The author wishes it to be stated that this paper was written by him in 
Hindi, and translated into English by Munshi Earn Prasad. Ed.] 
t Mr. Beames snpi^oses the ‘ Poem ' to be the ‘ earliest work of Hindi 
Poetry’ ; in the Journal A. S. B. [1873, P. I., No. 1, page 167] we find “ Chand is 
the earliest poet in the (Hindi) language.” He also says that it was written about 
A. D. 1200. [In. Ant. Vol. I.] Had the poem been actually composed by Chand, 
the learned gentleman’s suppositions would have been correct ; but it was written 
comparatively later on, as I shall show in the following pages; and several 
Hindi poems written earlier than the ‘ Easa ’ exist : e. g., the ‘ Eamayaa ’ of Tulsi 
Da.,— the ‘ Eae Mul Easa.’ 
