I've just posted the last of the Lalla poems in my collection. There are 146 of them, the most likely to be authentic, and sufficiently documented. To give this some perspective, Grierson did 109, B. N. Parimoo did 101, Shambhu Nath Bhatt and Janki Nath Bhan did 161 in the Köshur Sama:cha:r collection (only 138 of which were accepted by Jayalal Kaul as being probably authentic), the same 138 were published and translated by Nil Kanth Kotru, and Jaishree Kak Odin had 148 in her collection. I benefited from the work of all these people, and Jaishree was also extremely helpful in providing materials, as was Virendra Qazi. ॐ नमः शिवाय ॐ
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