Śrī Jānakī-karuṇābharaṇa

Two visually checked programme pages

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 and the scan has 458 PDF pages.

• PDF page 17 / printed page 20: the Chapter Eight contents visibly place Śrī Jānakī-karuṇābharaṇa inside the list introduced as works written by Śrī Svāmī Janakarāja Kiśorī Śaraṇa “Śrī Rasik Alī.”
• PDF page 252 / printed page 235: the programme distinctly prints the bare title श्री जानकी करुणा भरण between Kavitāvalī and Adhyāyatrayī, with no description, unit count, opening, ending, quotation, edition, or manuscript location.

The श्री रसिक अलीकृत printed lower on page 252 introduces the following Siddhānta-muktāvalī excerpt. It is not treated as a fresh attribution line for this title. The attribution here rests on the Chapter Eight contents grouping. The controlled scan has SHA-256 0bc5c457b2965fe4bba2a3badf9f751ff968a6eefe015da5acb0a4f2a186eb2d.

Two unresolved Shukla identity leads

Ramchandra Shukla's Hindī Sāhitya kā Itihāsa, certified Wikisource scan page 379 / printed page 354, lists the differently worded Jānakī-saraṇābharaṇa among Janakarāja-Kiśorīśaraṇa's works. It supplies no text or topology and does not prove identity with the programme's Śrī Jānakī-karuṇābharaṇa.

The same author list separately names Raghuvara-karuṇābharaṇa. Shared “karuṇābharaṇa” wording is not identity evidence. These two leads remain separate from each other and from the programme title until a witness or catalogue proves otherwise.

Fresh search scope · recorded 2026-09-07

• fresh Internet Archive exact-title and spelling-variant metadata searches
• Internet Archive/Digital Library of India holdings
• Tokyo University of Foreign Studies repository census
• public web exact-title, joined-title and author-variant searches
• Wikisource certified scan transcription
• local controlled Rāma-rasika OCR corpora

Seven fresh Internet Archive variant queries: Śrī Jānakī-karuṇābharaṇa; Sri Janaki Karunabharana; Janaki Karunabharan; श्री जानकी करुणा भरण; श्री जानकी-करुणाभरण; जानकी करुणाभरण; and Jānakī-saraṇābharaṇa.

All candidate counts are zero: fresh Internet Archive exact-work candidates 0; existing Internet Archive/DLI census candidates 0; existing broad Internet Archive census candidates 0; TUFS census candidates 0; and aggregate exact-work candidates 0. The wider search also tested Janaki Sharanabharan, जानकीसरणाभरण, जानकीशरणाभरण, Raghuvara-karuṇābharaṇa, Raghuvar Karunabharan, रघुवर करुणाभरण, and author variants Rasik Alī, Rasik Ali, Janakarāja Kiśorī Śaraṇa, Janakraj Kishori Sharan, रसिक अली, रसिकअली, जनकराज किशोरीशरण, and जनकराज किशोरी शरण. Search absence does not prove loss.

Rejected candidate classes

• Jānakī-saraṇābharaṇa bibliography entries: this differently worded title has no witness, extent, opening, or colophon proving identity with the programme title.
• Raghuvara-karuṇābharaṇa bibliography entries: Shukla lists it separately, and the shared compound ending does not justify merging it with either Jānakī title.
• Generic Jānakī praise, stotra, āratī, and karuṇā search results: subject overlap and shared devotional vocabulary establish neither bibliographic identity nor this work's text.

Precise gaps

• No exact-work print, manuscript, facsimile, trustworthy transcription, or explicitly assigned excerpt is controlled.
• The programme gives the title but no description or unit count, so the work's extent and unit type are unknown.
• The opening, ending, order, repetition pattern, metres, and readings are unknown.
• Identity with Shukla's differently worded Jānakī-saraṇābharaṇa has not been established.
• Identity with Shukla's separately listed Raghuvara-karuṇābharaṇa has not been established.
• Generic Jānakī devotional texts cannot be assigned to this work from subject overlap alone.
• 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.