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 Narottama.- vilasa,. being put in charge of the MSS. of the works written by the Vaishava masters, and despatched : to Bengal. Chap. VII—The looting of the MSS. by dacoits — employed by Vira Hamvira, Raja of Vanavisaupur | and conversion of the Raja to the Vaisnava faith. _ Chap. VIII.—An account of Rama Chandra Kaviraj and his initiation as a disciple of Crinivas. | Chap. IX.—An account of the great Vaisnava — festivals held at Kanchagadia and Crikheturi. Chaps. X and XI.—An account of Jahnavi Devi, wife of Nityananda and her pilgrimages. Chap. XI[.—An account of Crinivasa marrying a second time. Chaps. XIII and XIV.—Description of religious festivities at Verakull. Chap. XV.—Propagation of the Vaishnava faith by Cyamananda in Urissa. Narahari Chakravarti’s second book called Narottamvilasa (life of Narottama), though compara- tively small in size shows a decided improvement on the Bhaktiratnakara both in style and in its arrangement of materials. Narottamvilasa is divid- ed into 12 chapters. Narahari was a great scholar in Sanskrit, and the above two works, though written in Bengali, are full of learned references and quotations from the Sanskrit. Inthe Bhaktiratnakara we find refer- ences to the following amongst other Sanskrit