Holikā-vinoda

Scan-verified secondary notice

The notice was 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; the 458-page scan's PDF page 252 / printed page 235 reads:

होलिका विनोद—१३ कवित्त । सीताराम की

This establishes only a secondary report of thirteen kavitts on Sītā-Rāma's Holī play. The attribution to Rasik Alī comes from the programme grouping and registry; this short descriptive line does not repeat his name. It is not a witness of any of the thirteen poems and supplies no poem text. Neither the reported count nor subject is primary-witness-verified. The controlled scan has SHA-256 0bc5c457b2965fe4bba2a3badf9f751ff968a6eefe015da5acb0a4f2a186eb2d.

Unproved secondary title lead

Ramchandra Shukla's Hindī Sāhitya kā Itihāsa, certified Wikisource scan page 379 / printed page 354, lists होलिकाविनोद-दीपिका (Holikāvinoda-dīpikā) among works of Janakarāja-Kiśorīśaraṇa. It may be a fuller title or a related work, but no identity proof connects it to the programme's thirteen-kavitt notice. It supplies no poem text, extent, opening, or ending and is retained only as an uncertain search lead.

Search scope · recorded 2026-09-07

• Fresh Internet Archive metadata and creator searches
• Internet Archive/Digital Library of India holdings
• Tokyo University of Foreign Studies repository census
• Public web exact-title, joined-title, fuller-title and author-variant searches
• Wikisource certified page transcription
• Local controlled Rāma-rasika OCR corpora

Title variants: Holikā-vinoda, Holika Vinoda, Holika Vinod, Holikavinoda, Holikāvinoda-dīpikā, Holika Vinod Dipika, होलिका विनोद, होलिका-विनोद, होलिकाविनोद, होलिकाविनोद-दीपिका, and होलिका विनोद दीपिका. Author variants: Rasik Alī, Rasik Ali, Janakarāja Kiśorī Śaraṇa, Janakraj Kishori Sharan, रसिक अली, and जनकराज किशोरी शरण.

The search found 0 exact-work candidates: no digitized print, manuscript, facsimile, trustworthy transcription, usable catalogue witness, or controlled excerpt. Search absence does not prove loss.

Rejected candidates

• Ṣaḍṛtu Padāvalī (shadaritu-padavali-by-swami-rasik-ali): its 2025 scan, checked at title-leaf PDF page 2, is a larger mixed-metre seasonal anthology attributed to Rasik Alī. Its Holī material is spring dhamār/horī padas, not the thirteen-kavitt Holikā-vinoda.
• Holika Ras Vinod Padavali (holika-ras-vinod-padavali / holikarasvinodpadavali): duplicate uploads explicitly attribute this different padāvalī to Svāmī Videhaja Śaraṇa, not Rasik Alī.

Generic Sītā-Rāma Holī collections, Rasik Alī seasonal or Ṣaḍṛtu padāvalīs without the exact title and thirteen-kavitt topology, and secondary title-only bibliographies are false positives. Their poems must not be reassigned or substituted.

Precise gaps

• No exact-work print, manuscript, facsimile, or trustworthy transcription is controlled.
• The programme's report of thirteen kavitts on Sītā-Rāma's Holī play cannot yet be checked against a primary witness.
• The opening, ending, order, repetition pattern, metres in the witness, and readings of all reported poems are unknown.
• The secondary fuller title Holikāvinoda-dīpikā has not been proved to denote the same thirteen-kavitt work.
• The newly located Ṣaḍṛtu Padāvalī and Videhaja Śaraṇa Holī padāvalī are different works and cannot supply substitute verses.
• No original text, fresh English, or textual note can be prepared without a checked witness.
• No reader, print view, PDF, facsimile, or download can responsibly be released.