written by Khabardar from the book "Gujarat Ni Ghazalo" (1943) edited by
Krishnalal Jhaveri (p.82) He wrote under several pen names, chiefly under
Adal. His other pen names are Motalal, Khojo Bhagat, Kshemanand Bhatt, Narkesarirao, Shabhunath, Shridhar, Sheshadri, Lakha Bhagat, Valkalrai Thatthakhor, and Hunnarsinh Mehta. He wrote around forty books in Gujarati and two in English. His Gujarati poem,
Jya Jya Vase Ek Gujarati, Tya Tya Sadakal Gujarat (Wherever a Gujarati resides, there forever is Gujarat), depicts Gujarati ethnic pride and is widely popular in Gujarat. He wrote in modern Gujarati instead of Parsi Gujarati. His first work was the poetry collection
Kavyarasika, which followed the style of
Dalpatram, in 1901.
Vilasika, published in 1905, followed the style of
Narsinhrao Divetia.
Prakashika (1908) is styled as the works of
Kalapi and
Kant.
Bharat no Tankar (1909) and
Rashtrika (1940) are collections of patriotic songs. He parodied and satirised
Gujarat no Tapasvi and
Brahmadiksha of
Nanalal as
Prabhat no Tapasvi and
Kutkutdiksha (1920) under the pen name Motalal.
Sandeshika (1925) includes patriotic songs. His
Kalika (1926) is a love song in
blank verse style.
Bhajanika (1928),
Darshanika (1931), and
Kalyanika (1940) are collections of devotional songs.
Rasachandrika (1929, 1941) is a collection of
rasa songs in the style of Nanalal and
Botadkar.
Shriji Iranshah no Pawado depicts the history of
Zorostrianism and
Gandhi Bapu no Pawado praises
Mahatma Gandhi; both are poetry in the
Marathi powada style.
Gandhi Bapu (1948) also has thirty-one songs dedicated to Gandhi. His last collection,
Kirtanika, had seventy-five
kirtan songs. He also published
Malabari na Kavyaratno, an interpretation of poems of
Behramji Malabari in 1913. His only English-language poetry collection,
The Silken Tassel (1918), had fifty-nine poems. He wrote
New Light on the Gathas of Holy Zarathushtra and
Zarathushtra: 101 Sonnets, depicting the life and teaching of
Zoroaster. He started writing a play titled
Manuraj or
Vishwanatika styled on
Goethe's Faust and Nanalal's
free verse in 1936 but never completed or published. ==Publications==