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 V.] BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. 551 Jadunandana Chakravarti wrote, Radha Krisna Jadunan- dana Chak- Lilakadamva, a Bengali poem containing 6000 রে couplets. He was a disciple of Gadadhara Das. Prema Daas, (the Vaishnava name adopted by Puru- prema Das sottama Siddhanta Vagica) was born in Kulig in _Navadwipa. He wrote the ৬৪061 Ciksa, already noticed on page 513,in 1712 A.D. and translated Chaitanya Chandrodaya, a Sanskrit drama _ by Kavikarnapura into Bengali verse. Gouri Das, a highly respected personage of the Gouri Das. Vaishnava community and a contemporary of Chai- tanya Deva. It is said that the latter presented Gouri Das with a Gita copied by himself and also an oar with which he rowed his small pleasure- boat on the Ganges. Gouri made an image of Chaitanya Deva in Nimba wood when the latter was on the eve of taking Sanyasin’s vows. This historic image is still worshipped at Ambikanagara in Kalna. Narahari Sarkara (1487-1540) of Crikhanda—-a Narahari
 * : ; Sarkara

friend and follower of Chaitanya Deva. Chaitanya রি Deva is said to have exclaimed when in 20120051540 2৮1, ina village of southern India ‘‘O Narahari, dear as my life, where art thou now? Recite Krisna’s name once more and I will embrace thee.’ * Narahari belonged to the Vaidya caste. His father’s name was Narayana. He wrote many padas in praise of Chaitanya. হরি নাম শুনি তোমা আলিঙ্গন করি ॥” Govinda Das’s Kadcha.
 * “কখন বলেন কোথা প্রাণ নরহরি।