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 410 BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE [ Chap. the keenness of the Bengali intellect. The subtlety with which the Navya Nyaya has been worked out, gives it a unique character and in the brilliant mode of its exposition, it may be considered as a land-mark of progress in human thought, and an achievement of which every Indian may be justly proud. This school of Logic at Navadwipa drew pupils from Benares, the Panjab, Poona and all the other recognised centres of Sanskrit learning; so that by the early 16th century the Tolas or Sanskrit schools of Nava- dwipa, had become the metropolis of learning in India. Narahari Chakervarty, author of Bhakti- ratnakara gives a topography of Navadwipa of this period, from which we see that the area of The area of the city was sixteen square miles at the time. 11 ann included within this area the following among other wards :—Atapur, Simulia, Majitagram, Va- manpukhuria, Hat-danga, Ratupur, Vidyanagara, — 3elpukhuria, Champahat, Mangachi, Rahupur, Minapur, Gandhavanik Para, Malakara Para, Can- khari Para and Tanti Para. Vrindavan Das, author of Chaitanya Bhagbata, thus describes the flourish- ing condition of Navadwipa. “*It is impossible to describe the glories of Its flour- , ishing Navadwipa. Hundreds of thousands of people condition. tthe there in the Ganges every day. Various races of people dwell in the city whose num- এক গঙ্গাঘাটে লক্ষ লোক স্নান করে ॥ fafay বৈসে এক জাতি লক্ষ লক্ষ। সরস্বতী দৃষ্টিপাতে সবে মহ। দক্ষ ॥
 * নবছীপের সমুদ্ধি কে বণিবারে পারে।