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 Pranarama Chakra- varty. 678 BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. [ Chap. may be so easily wrought into exquisitely melo- dious strains, the artistic effect produced by a clever manipulation of sweet sounding words, can not be ignored. One who can raise emotions and portray pathos by metrical lines writes noble poetry no doubt, but there is askilled labour in poetry which creates emotions not wholly definable, as do the unmeaning warblings of birds or the musical notes of a lyre. There is much poetry in mere sound—1in its meaningless harmony and we must not deprecate the value of this in our melli- fluous Bengali tongue. After Bharata Chandra, Pranarama Chakravarty wrote a Vidya Sundara in which we come across the following lines :— IXrisnarama, a native of the village Nimta ;—next we find one by Rama Prasada.. After these two poets, Bharata Chandra came to the field and incidentally described the story of Vidya Sundara in his poem called the Annada Mangala.’’ He evidently did not know the names of those earlier poets who had written on the subject before Krisnharama. বিরচিলা কঞ্খরাম নিমতা যার বাস ॥ তাহার রচিত পুঁথি আছে ঠাই ঠাই। রামপ্রসাদের কত পরে দেখা পাই ॥ পরেতে SASHA অনদামঙ্গলে। রচিলেন উপাখ্যান প্রসঙ্গের ছলে ॥" Vidya Sundara by Pranarama.
 * «The first Vidya Sundara was written by
 * বিদ্যান্তুন্দবের এই প্রথম বিকাশ।