6 THE MODERN LITERARY HISTORY OF HINDUSTAN. [§ 9. 
Hammlr Deb (FI. 1300 A.D.), the Chauhan, of Ran’thambhor, who 
belonged to the family of Blsal Deb, the ancestor of Chand. Hammlr’s 
dogged valour and heroic death at the hands of A/au’d-din Khiljl have 
given rise to innumerable proverbs, and have been celebrated in 
poetical works in many languages of India. None, however, is so 
popular as Sarayg Dhar’s two works known as the Hammlr Ray’sa 
and the Hammlr Kabya . 1 M. Barth has suggested to me that this 
poet is the same as the Carygadhara, author of the Sanskrit anthology 
entitled the Carygadhara Paddhati, described by Mr. FitzEdward 
Hall in the preface to his edition of the Vasavadatta, and by Prof. 
Aufrecht in ZDMG., xxvii, 2. A reference to Pandit Mohan Lai 
Visnu Lai Pandia has confirmed the accuracy of this suggestion, and 
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I am indebted to this gentleman for quotations showing that it was 
not Sarayg Dhar or Carygadhara, but his grandfather Raghu Hath, 
who was spiritual guide to Hammlr . The Carygadhara Paddhati was 
written in 1363 A.D. 
I have only seen detached extracts from this poet’s works, and 
hence am unable to say whether the other two poems were certainly by 
him or not. What gives rise to doubt is the existence [in the J. A. 
S. B., vol. xlviii (1879), p. 186] of a translation of a Hammlr Rasa, or 
« History of Hammlr, Prince of Ran’thambhor,” by Babu Brajanatha 
Bandhopadhyaya, of Jaipur. According to the Introduction of this 
work, the original was written by one Jodh 1 2 * Raj, of Nim’rand, in 
Al’war. He attended the court of a Chauhan prince named Chandr 9 
Bhan, a descendant of Prithwl Raj, and was by birth a Gaur 
Brahman, born at Bijawar. There is a copy of the Carygadhara (or 
Sarayg Dhar) Paddhati in the Tod collection of manuscripts (No. 32) 
in the Library of the Royal Asiatic Society. I have only had an 
opportunity of a very cursory examination of the work, which is 299 
fol. long. Prof. Peterson has published an edition of it in Bombay. 
No. 42 in the same collection is entitled the Hammlra Charitra, 
but I am unable to say if it is the same as any of the works above 
mentioned. 
9. the poet Jodh Raj, of Nim’rana in A/’war. FI. 
1363 (?) A.D. See No. 8 above. 
1 Tod, ii, 452n, 472n ; Calc, ed., ii, 497n, 517n. 
2 There was a Jodh Kabi (No. 118) who attended the court of the Emperor 
Ah’bar, who may be the same as this author. 
