66 M. V. Pandia— The Antiquity of the poet Nagari Das. [No. 1, 
worshipped by Swami pri Haridas-ji, and composed several verses bear¬ 
ing the poetic name Rasik Bihari. 
Now, first of all, it is worth consideration whether the poet Nagari 
Das who is the subject of this paper, and Nagar, noticed by Dr. 
Grierson and the author of the Saroj, is the same, or someone else, 
his name-sake. I believe, he is tl\e same poet, because I have been 
able to identify the above mentioned specimens of the poet’s metrical 
composition in the manuscript in my possession, which contains 57 
works of this Nagari Das. They are identified thus :— 
A. There is an incomplete work in the manuscript in my posses¬ 
sion at No. 38, and page 192, entitled Barkha ke kavitta, which contains 
eight kavittas only. The first specimen of the fivasimh Saroj is to 
be found there, at No. 7, wdth slight differences in its reading. It reads 
thus :— 
wt! Prat 'ir'Cf mcmt i 
^jfm % ^rnrft ^ jfTcr nf? Hi? i 
m % fen ffdf'' wi ^ dn tf ml i 
nV urn 'fife erc mn 'fife munt ffe fet§il 11 ® o 
The great difference in the above reading is the word Mohan in¬ 
stead of the name of the poet Nagar in the third line. 
B. There is a complete work in the MS. at No. 35, and page 184, 
entitled the Hori ke kavitta, containing 19 kavittas in all. The second 
specimen is found there, at No. 19, the reading of which is as 
follows :— 
jit« iraWt % mlf femsfe ssg n msfe ms:l 'rtfem i 
life arcin' *r ffeT msmen ^ pnm mm??! imferai 1 i 
gx; xigr 'sfe mVn ml* KTt few stfe 'fiwtfem l 
mn 'id wt ^d sn mmt fi" nfe mfeim itfwm n \<j. n 
In this also the word hhdvate occurs instead of the name of the 
poet Nagar in the fourth line. 
0. And there is another complete work, called the Phaga Bihara, 
in my MS. at No. 41, and page 256, in which the third specimen of the 
Saroj is mentioned at No. 8, as a Savaiya. The following is a reading 
thereof :— 
^nfe % n mnife % nm mife 'fitft nmf; I 
w wi xiifi urn si* w wggw wt mfemir i 
