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 474 BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. [ Chap, Bee This we find in Jayananda’s Chaitanya-Mangala. tion of the From an account given by Lochana Das in his পাকি life of Chaitanya—a subsequent work, we are led Das, to surmise that his body was immediately removed to the temple of Jagannath in Puri and the priests made a grave for it inthe floor of the temple. They closed the doors of the temple against all visitors,—Chaitanya's immediate followers not ex- cepted, while they were placing the body in it and repairing the floor after burial. The passing away of Chaitanya Deva was thus madea mystery by the Pandas, who now earn money from the credulous pilgrims by relating romantic stories about his disappearance and by pointing to the golden mark in the figure of Gopinath, which, they describe as the mark of the passage by which Chaitanya Deva melted into the figure of that god. টি Jayananda’s Chaitanya-Mangala discloses some tory. other facts of the history of Bengal. I[t is related in it, that Hossain Shah, the Emperor of Gour (1494—1525) heard of a prophecy in the land that the Brahmins of Navadwipa would subvert the Moslem power, establish a Hindu kingdom and occupy Gour. The prophecy was widely current and the Emperor was alarmed by it. Here is the passage describing the steps that he adopted to avert the evil. deprived of their caste or killed. Whenever a ° ) conch was sounded in a house, the Emperors ব্রাহ্মণ ধরিয়া! রাজাজাতি প্রাণ লয় ॥ নবদীপে শঙ্খধ্বনি শুনে যার ঘরে। ধন প্রাণ লয়ে তার জাতি নাশ করে ॥
 * “ By the Emperor's orders the Brahmins were
 * * আচন্ষিতে নবছীপে হইল রাজ ভয়।