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 The con- tents of Annada- Mangala. 666 BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. [ Chap. woman again sings* ‘‘ What a foolish young man! He constantly says ‘aunt, give me my Vidya.’ Is she a jewel that a woman can keep tied in the end of her sadi and produce on demand!’’ These songs and hundreds of such, a attributed to Gopal Uriya and other Yatrawalas, were once in every man’s mouth. Their inspiration came direct from Bharata Chandra. In fact in the depraved atmos- phere of towns, directly affected by court-influence on the eve of the downfall of the Mahomedan power, Vidya-Sundara became the craze of the young dilettantes of Bengal who revelled in the literature of sensualism. The Annada Mangala by Bharata Chandra, of which Vidya Sundara forms a part, is divided into three parts... The. first part is devoted to the sac- rifice performed by Daksa, the death of Sati, her rebirth as Uma, her marriage with Civa and sub- sequent domestic scenes at Kailas. It also des- cribes the futile attempt of the sage Vyasa to build a second Benares, with the object of thwarting the God Civa, and gives account of Harihoda and Bha- bananda Mazumdar—ancestors of Raja Krisna Chandra. The second part describes the story of Vidya-Sundara. The last part is devoted to a description of the wars of Raja Pratapaditya of Jessore with Man Sing, the Governor of Bengal, সদা বলে কই মাসি তুই বিদ্যা দিলিনে, আচলে কি বাধা আছে দিব তা এনে 2" Sung in Gopala Uriya’s yatra.
 * কোথাকার হাব! ছেলে হাসি পায় শুনে,