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 'V.] BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. 858 family which originally resided at Sylhet migrated to Navadvipa during Chaitanya Deva’s life-time. Prasada Das—a native of Visnupur in the district of Bankura. He had the title of Kavipati. Uddhava Das—a friend of Vaishnava Das who compiled the celebrated Padakalpataru—an _ in- habitant of Tena Vaidyapura. Radha Vallabha Das,—son of Sudhakar Mandal of Kanchagadia and the compiler of a Bengali tran- slation of Vilapa Kusumanjali by Raghu Nath Goswami. Ray Cekhara or Cagi Gekhara—an inhabitant of the village of Parana in the district of Burdwan. He lived early in the 18th century. Paramananda Sen—a great Sanskrit poet who also wrote padas in Bengali. He was born in 1524. He is more commonly known by his title Kavi- karnapura. He wrote his’ celebrated Chaitanya Chandrodaya Nataka in 1572 A.D Vasudeva Ghosa, Madhava Ghose and Govinda- nanda Ghose, three brothers and contemporaries of Chaitanya Deva. All of them composed fadas in Bengali. They were originally inhabitants of Kumarhatta, but finally settled at Navadvipa. They belonged to the Kayastha caste. Vasu Ghosa’s padas in praise of Chaitanya are the best of their kind and they generally form the Gour Chandrika or prelude to the,;songs of Radha and Krisna in all collection of Vaishnava padas. The present Maharaja of Dinajpur is descended from Vasu Ghosa through one of his daughters, Prasada Das. Uddhava Das. Radha Vallabha Das. Ray Cekhara, Paramga- nanda Sen. Vasudeva Ghosa.