V. Abhandlung: Bühler. Indian Studies. No. I. 
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Indian Studies. 
By 
Georg Bühler. 
No. I. 
The Jagaducharita of Sarvänanda, a historical romance from 
Grujarat. 
The Jagaducharita 1 or Life of Jagadu (in Sanskrit Jagad- 
deva) belongs to the dass of historical romances, which the 
modern researches in India have brought to light in consi- 
derable numbers. It differs from the other works of the same 
kind, like the Sri-Harshacharita of Bana, the Vikramänka- 
devacharita of Bilhana, the Kirtikaumudi of Somcsvara and 
the Sukritasaiiikirtana of Arisimha, only by its comparatively 
late origin, by a want of artistic linish and by the circumstance 
that its hero is not a king or minister, but a simple merckant, 
who did much for his native town by rebuilding its walls, and 
for Gujarät by alleviating the wide-spread distress during a 
terrible famine in A. D. 1256—58. 
The Jagaducharita, which in the colophons is called a 
Mahakävya, contains seven Sargas, with 388 verses: 
I. Viyatthuprabkritipürvapuruskavarnana, i. e., 
the description of Viyattliu and other ancestors of Jagadu; verses 
45; chief metre, Vasantatilaka, 
1 The MS., on which the subjoined essay is based, is that of the India 
Office Library, Sanskrit MSS. Bühler, No. 291 (see Zeitschrift der 
Deutschen morgenländischen Gesellschaft, vol. XLII, p. 551). It was 
kindly lent to me in 1876 by Bäo Säheb Dalpaträm P. Khakhar, then 
Educational Inspector of Kachh, who of late lias sanctioned its presen- 
tation to the India Office. It is a modern, but very correct copy, made 
for Mr. Khakhar from an old MS., belonging to a Jaina Yati in Bhuj. 
Sitzungsber. d. phil.-hist. CI. CXXVI. Bd. 5. Abh. 1