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 V.] BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. 553 Rama Ray died in 1584 A.D. Nara hari Chakravarti—author of Narottamavilg4sa and Bhaktiratnakara—the celebrated biographical and historical works already mentioned, wrote alarge number of padas under the name of Ghana Cyama Das. ‘There is also another Ghana Gyama—a padakarta, son of Divya Sinha and grandson of Govindadas, the illustrious poet. Rama Gopala Das—the author of Rasakalpavalli (written in 1643 A.D.) wrote many fpadas of ex- quisite beauty and his son Pitamvara Das author of Rasamunjari contributed a good number of padas to Vaisnava collections. Jagadananda, a Vaidya by caste. He wasa descendant of Mukunda, one of the contemporaries of Chaitanya. They were originally residents of Crikhanda, but afterwards settled at the village of Yophalai in the district of Burdwan. Jagadananda cared only for sweet words in his fadas. We have come across some of the drafts of his composition in his own handwriting which show that he was far from being a born poet; he acquired the power of writing poetry by mastering the vocabulary of sweet sounding words, asa school-boy acquires a knowledge of Geography by noting the places in his memory. One of the draft shows that he made himself busy to find out the synonyms of words to be used in his songs. On the other page of the said draft he scribbled doggerels with the words on his list ; he cared for nothing else than to Create a pleasant jingle with them. He writes a line and then cuts it through and repeats the process several times, all the while evidently 79 Narahari Chakra- ৬৪111, Rama Gopala Das Pitamvara Das. Jagada- nanda,