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 IV.] BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. — 471 এ 50 11579) 0 my father, O Lord of my soul, । hast Thou gone and left me,’ and he fell on the bare ground and his handsome person was _ besmeared with dust. (c) Chaitanya Mangal by Jayananda. 8৭ ee ARAN: oe Se _ The next biographical account of Chaitanya ‘Deva that we come across, was written by _Jayananda. Jayananda was born in 1513 A. D ‘He belonged to a family, from which sprang -Raghunandan, the law-giver of Bengal of the 16th ‘century. Jayananda’s father Subuddhi Micra, was a noted personality of the Vaisnava community, about whom frequent references are found in Govinda Das’s_ kadcha, Vaisnavacharadarpana, Charitamrita and other works. Jayananda when a child saw Chaitanya in the house of his grand- father. He was commonly called by the pet name of Guia. It is said that Chaitanya took some interest in the boy and gave him the Sanskritic name of Jayananda, by which he was latterly known. There are certain historical points, in which Jayananda differs from other writers, and from the traditions current in the country. Itis generally believed that Chaitanya’s father Jagannath Micra was originally an inhabitant of Dhakadaksina in Sylhet. But Jayananda refers to Jayanagar in Sylhet as the native village of Jagannath Micra. The Mahomedan devotee, who obtained a great celebrity in the Vaisnava community under the name of Hari Das, by his staunch devotion to Jayananda, born 1513 A.D. The new facts brought to light by him.
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