पारिजातहरणम् महाकाव्यम्: Parijataharanam Mahakavyam- Written By Kavikarnapura

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The Pārijātaharana, a Mahākāvya of Kavi Karņapūra is now presented to the world of scholars for the first time from a single and incomplete plam-leaf manuscript in Maithili script. This is Mithila Institute MS. No. 580 490. Out of 95 folia, 13 by 1 inches, only seventy three are preserved. Each folio has got four to five lines to a page and each line contains 60-68 syllables. Out of the first fifteen folia only three unmarked ones covering a portion of canto I are available. Then there is a long gap which covers portions of cantos I and III and the whole of canto II. Again folia 25-31 covering a few verses of canto IV and almost the whole of canto V are lost. Similarly folia 46-48 covering portions of cantos VIII & IX (?) are wanting. The MS breaks after the 48th verse of canto XVIII. Judging from the change of metre in the last available verse and the slackness of the scribe in the last folio (the action also being complete there) one may conclude that not more than a few verses are lost at the end of this canto and that he poem originally consisted of eighteen cantos only.