Śyāma-sudhā

What is actually verified

Scan 364 / printed page 337 of Bhuwaneshwar Nath Mishra “Madhav”, Rāma-bhakti-sāhitya meṃ Madhura Upāsanā (1957), visibly begins a numbered list of Kāṣṭhajihvā Svāmī's printed booklets. Item 7 is श्याम सुधा. The notice adds no subject description. This verifies secondary bibliographic metadata, not a primary text. The canonical total is unknown.

Direct reinspection of Chapter Eight contents scan 21 reads श्यामसुधा, agreeing with the spaced body reading श्याम सुधा. The former saved alias “Śyāma-suvasā” was a scan misreading; this correction is recorded explicitly, not silently normalized.

Bounded source search

Exact and variant Devanāgarī and Roman-title searches—including the rejected former Śyāma-suvasā reading—author combinations, six Internet Archive metadata query families, public indexes, and saved local research produced 0 exact-work candidates. Search absence does not prove that the work is lost.

Generic uses of śyāma and sudhā, other independently titled Śyāma works, Kāṣṭhajihvā's separately catalogued works, and general author-attributed verses were quarantined or rejected as substitutes because none establishes that its text belongs to this work.

Precise gaps

• No exact print, manuscript, catalogue facsimile, trustworthy transcription, or securely assignable root excerpt has been located.
• The primary title leaf, imprint, date, publisher, opening, ending, colophon, pagination, continuity, completeness, canonical order, unit type, and total are unknown.
• The 1957 programme supplies the bare title only and quotes no text or subject description under it.
• General verses attributed elsewhere to Kāṣṭhajihvā Svāmī are not assigned to Śyāma-sudhā and are not silently substituted for its root.
• No original text, fresh English translation, textual note, reader, print view, PDF, facsimile, or download can responsibly be released from the present exact-work evidence.