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THE MODERN LITERARY HISTORY OF HINDUSTAN. 
century. 1 It gives a history of Khuman Raut and of his family. It 
was recast during the reign of Par’tap Siygh (fl. 1575), and, as we 
now have it, carries the narrative down to the wars of that prince 
with Ak’bar, devoting a great portion to the siege of Chitaur by 
Alciu’d-dln Khiljl in the thirteenth century. 2 3 We may therefore 
presume that the copies now extant are in a dialect of Mewar not later 
than the end of the sixteenth century. 
3 # the poet and bard Kedar. FI. 1150 A.D. 
Mentioned in the Sib Siygh Sardj as attending the court of 
Alau'd-dln Ghorl. He therefore flourished about 1150 A.D., and if any 
of his works can be found, they will probably be the oldest specimens 
of vernacular literature obtainable. I have never seen any of his 
writings, and I fear they are lost, unless they have been preserved 
in the Tod manuscripts. He is possibly mentioned by Tod, but 
I have not been able to find his name. 
4. king Kumar Pal, of An’hal. FI* 1150 A.D. 
Towards the end of the same century an anonymous poet of 
Rdj’putana wrote a bardic chronicle, entitled the Kumar Pal Charitra, z 
detailing the line of descent of the Buddhist 4 Raja Kumar Pal, of 
An’hal, from Brahma downwards. The manuscript exists in the Tod 
collection, being Ho. 31 in the Royal Asiatic Society’s list. 
We now come to the time of Pithaura or Prithuji Raj, the Chauhan, 
of DillJ, who was born 1159 A.D. and died 1193 A.D. He was not 
only a valiant hero, 5 but was a great patron of literature. If we may 
believe Sib Sipgh, the works of two at least of the bards who attended 
his court have come down to us. These were Nos. 5 and 6. 
5. Ananya Das, of Chaked’uJa, district Goda . 
B. 1H8 A.D. 
The only authority for this poet is the Sib Siygh Sardj , which 
states that he was author of a work called Ananya Jog, from which 
1 Tod, ii, 757 ; Calc, ed., ii, 814. 
2 Tod, i, 214; ii, 757 ; Calc, ed., i, 231; ii, 814. 
3 Tod, i, 81, 80a, 241n, 256; ii, 242n; Calc, ed., i, 86, 87n, 259n, 275 ; ii, 266. 
4 See Tod, i, 98; Calc, ed., i, 106. 
* For a history of his life and times, see Tod, i, 95, 256; Calc, ed., 102, 275. 
