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Towards a Critical Edition of Sūr Poems in MS Sharma 3190 and Other Dādūpanthī Codices
The chapter relates to the upcoming critical edition of poems with attribution to Sūrdās recorded in the Dādūpanth. The edition takes the earliest extant Dādūpanthī manuscript compiled between 1615 and 1621 CE (MS Sharma 3190) as the base manuscript and includes a total of seven Dādūpanthī codices predating 1700 CE (in addition to MS 3190, the Sarvāṅgī of Rajab, the Sarvāṅgī of Gopāldās, VB 34, DM 2, VB 12, and AMR 875). The poems on each page presented in the original Braj Bhasha are accompanied by my translation into English and provided with variant readings found in other compilations. MS Sharma 3190 is the second oldest dated collection of Sūr poems and unexamined in previous studies on Sūrdās. The Dādūpanthī strand represents an independent branch of the Sūrdās tradition not accounted for in the 2015 critical edition of the Sūrsāgar by Bryant and Hawley. A considerable number of compositions ascribed to Sūrdās in the Dādūpanth are not included in Poems from the Early Tradition. In this chapter, I look into the connections between the manuscripts and examine the profile of the Dādūpanthī codices by presenting the pads included in these manuscripts not found in MS Sharma 3190. The cross-examination of manuscripts used for the critical edition includes MS Fatehpur, the earliest anthology with Sūr poems consisting of three different sections, probably copied from three earlier short collections. The section containing predominantly poems of vinay genre is compared with pads common to MS Sharma 3190.
