Dohāvalī

Programme evidence

Both pages were checked directly in Bhuwaneshwar Nath Mishra ‘Madhav’, Rāma-bhakti-sāhitya meṃ Madhura Upāsanā, first edition, 1957, Internet Archive/DLI item in.ernet.dli.2015.480993. The controlled local file is 23,682,714 bytes, has 458 PDF pages, and SHA-256 0bc5c457b2965fe4bba2a3badf9f751ff968a6eefe015da5acb0a4f2a186eb2d.

• PDF page 17 / printed page 20 places Dohāvalī inside the Chapter Eight list introduced as works written by Śrī Svāmī Janakarāja Kiśorī Śaraṇa “Śrī Rasik Alī.”
• PDF page 252 / printed page 235 prints only दोहावली, immediately after Adhyāyatrayī and before the independently headed Siddhānta-muktāvalī excerpt, with no description, count, opening, ending, quotation, edition, or manuscript location.

Two independent checked bibliographies

Ramchandra Shukla’s certified scan page 379 / printed page 354 explicitly lists Dohāvalī under Janakarāja-Kiśorīśaraṇa, corroborating title and attribution without supplying topology or a witness. Miśrabandhu-vinoda PDF page 537 / printed page 553 lists it as work 12 of 19 under Janaka Rāja Kiśorīśaraṇa and records that the author’s books had been seen at the Chhatarpur court. That is a historical location lead, not proof that a copy survives there today.

Shukla’s 804-page, 41,328,186-byte certified scan has SHA-256 99ff2165bbab052412c9fe5d1a9cae90721a2bfce448f531a8b0156aac15e546. The 621-page, 38,079,182-byte Miśrabandhu-vinoda scan is Internet Archive/DLI item in.ernet.dli.2015.478503 and has SHA-256 993df3e96a0a14de32aa5d6095d0de3abee32810ade25ef8256aa17981a6cd63.

Search scope · recorded 2026-09-07

Searches covered fresh Internet Archive creator-and-title metadata, existing Internet Archive/Digital Library of India exact and broad censuses, the TUFS repository, Google, Wikisource, Miśrabandhu-vinoda scan and OCR, and local controlled Rāma-rasika scans and OCR. Title variants were Dohāvalī, Dohavali, and दोहावली. Author variants were Rasik Alī, Rasik Ali, Janakarāja Kiśorī Śaraṇa, Janakaraj Kishori Sharan, Janakraj Kishori Sharan, रसिक अली, रसिकअली, जनकराज किशोरीशरण, and जनक राज किशोरीशरण.

Eight fresh Internet Archive creator-title queries returned 0 records. Five existing exact-title candidates are Tulasīdāsa or Kabīra records; the broad census has 0 candidates. The TUFS census has 23 leads, and its two exact-title files checked directly are a 23-page Tulasīdāsa Dohāvalī (record 8605) and the one-page Jamāluddīn collection Jamāl Dohāvalī (record 17986). Overall exact-work candidates: 0. Search absence does not prove loss.

The checked TUFS files are 9703.pdf (6,698,558 bytes; SHA-256 0bcdc9d59747c78622a138a06380ad06f35a47019ada9b0477bcfd4d45e0ce27) and 4287_H.pdf (29,598 bytes; SHA-256 e426beca45f1af05d1ddf2e0ef67034aab78d868c1e6c7305f6363055e854dae).

Rejected substitutes

• The controlled 73-page, 51,856,160-byte Nṛtya-rāghava-milana appendix (SHA-256 47166650c7839f8b67b0d043fab1ba04370ceec3e3ba627b23d05d5404ad6bec) was checked at PDF pages 60 and 72. Its 127-couplet Dohāvalī is assigned to Rāmasakhendra and closes under Jānakī Śaraṇa, not Rasik Alī.
• A modern page’s 28 unnumbered “Rasik Alī” couplets lacks source, title leaf, colophon, extent, and sequence. Spot checks identify units 10, 35, 65, and 66 as Siddhānta-muktāvalī material.
• Derivative Bharatakośa and Gadya Kośa author-list pages repeat Shukla and add no witness, topology, or text.

Precise gaps

• No exact-work print, manuscript, facsimile, trustworthy transcription, or explicitly assigned excerpt is controlled.
• The programme and two checked historical bibliographies verify the title and attribution but supply no couplet count or extent, so no untreated-unit total is invented.
• The title broadly identifies a couplet collection, but its exact verse forms, numbering, divisions, opening, ending, order, repetitions, and readings are unknown.
• Miśrabandhu-vinoda records the author's books as historically seen at the Chhatarpur court; no current shelfmark, catalogue record, survival status, or reproduction was located.
• Five Internet Archive exact-title candidates are by Tulasīdāsa or Kabīra; the broad census and eight fresh creator-title queries yield no Rasik Alī exact-work candidate.
• The 23 TUFS search leads are different titles or authors; the two exact-title files visually checked are Tulasīdāsa's Dohāvalī and Jamāluddīn's Jamāl Dohāvalī.
• The visually checked 127-couplet Dohāvalī appended to Nṛtya-rāghava-milana is explicitly Rāmasakhendra/Jānakī Śaraṇa material, not Rasik Alī's work.
• A modern page of 28 unsourced ‘Rasik Alī’ couplets reproduces scan-controlled Siddhānta-muktāvalī material and cannot be relabelled as Dohāvalī.
• No original text, fresh English, or unit-level textual note can be prepared without a checked exact-work witness.
• No reader, print view, PDF, facsimile, or download can responsibly be released.