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Title: History of Bengali language and literature. A series of lectures delivered as Reader to the Calcutta University
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Sen, Dinesh Chandra, rai bahadur University of Calcutta
Subjects: Bengali literature -- History and criticism Bengali language
Publisher: Calcutta, The University
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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whichwe find his poems in the Bengali collections ofthe present day. The Mahotsava ceremony atCrikheturi is indeed a landmark in the history ofthe Vaisfiavas and a sort of light-house discoveringto our view a w^hole panorama of scenes in whichthe illustrious Vaishavas of the early i6th century,whose names are so familiar to us by their writings,played an important part. Besides, the history ofsocial manners and customs and ways of life ofthe Vaishavas of that period have been faithfullyrecorded in the accounts of this festival. About the other Padakartas we jot down thefollowing notes :—Jaduiian- jadunandana Das, born in 1537 A.D. He \\rote ari historical work called Karnananda in i()0) at thecommand of (Jrlmati Hemalata, daughter ofCrinivas Acharyya. Me was 70 years old whenhe wrote the above work, jaelunandann, besides,larnslated (io\ indalilamrita by Kiisha Das Kavirajand Xidagdha Madhaba, a drama by Rupa GosvSmifrom Sanskrit into iK-ngali metrical verse. da 11 a Dasborn 15 37 f
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to V. ) BENGALI LANGUAGE & LllERAlURE. 55I Jadunan> dana Chak- ravarti. Prema Das Qouri Das. Jadunandana Chakravarti wrote, Radha KrisfiaLilakadamva, a Bengali poem containing 6000couplets. He was a disciple of Gadadhara Das. Prema Das, (the Vaisnava name adopted by Puru-sottama Siddhanta Vagina) was born in Kulia inNavadwipa. He wrote the Xamgi (Jiksa, alreadynoticed on page 513, in 1712 A.D. and translatedChaitanya Chandrodaya, a Sanskrit drama byKavikar^apura into Bengali verse. Gouri Das, a highly respected personage of theVaisnava community and a contemporary of Chai-tanya Deva. It is said that the latter presentedGouri Das with a Gita copied by himself and alsoan oar with which he rowed his small pleasure-boat on the Ganges. Gouri made an image ofChaitanya Deva in Nimba wood when the latterwas on the eve of takino^ Sanvasins vows. Thishistoric image is still worshipped at Ambikanagarain Kalna. Narahari Sarkara (1487-1540) of Crikhanda—a Naraharifriend and follower of Ch

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