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 JV. |] BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. | 497. (3) Advait Prakaga by. Ican Nagar (born: in 1492 A.D.) Advait Prakaga was completed by him in his seventieth year, in the year 1561. The book contains 5,500 lines. (4) Advait Mangal by Hari Charan Das. This book was written immediately after the death of Advaitacharyya by the author, who was a disciple of the apostle. It is a voluminous book contain- ‘ing 23 chapters. (5) Advait Vilas by Narahari Das. This work was written in the latter part of the 17th century. The line of princely asceties has not yet been The broken in India. Ages after the great Buddha had _ princely left his father’s palace at Kapilavastu, Raja Gopi- Pie oa ichand of Bengal in the 12th century took the as- cetic’s bowl in hand and renounced his capital where his two beautiful queens Aduna and Paduna bemoaned their lot. Raja Gopichandra a great Prince and the handsomest young man of his age,— vheeded not the enjoyments of life, but wandered ‘through forests and dales exposing himself to unheard-of hardships, for the sake of religion. The situation involved a certain pathos the memory of which is still preserved in poems, to be found in all parts of India. When the monarch returned home still an ascetic after twelve years, the । bowl still in his hand and unrecognised even by his devoted queens, they set on a_ bulldog : 5 : Gopichand. 5০ drive out one who appeared as an intruder into the palace, but the bulldog instantly recognised his old master, and falling at his feet began to wag his tail and lick them fondly; the royal elephant was sent to trample him under foot, but the elephant bent its head and moved his proboscies in fond joy
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