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 682 BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. [ Chap. concise, and commands a greater facility inthe use of Sanskrit metres in Bengali. Jayanarayana was acousin of Raja Rajavallabha কা and was a Vaidy by caste. His ancestor Gopi Ramana ৭5৪, Sen’s name is mentioned by Mr. Beveridge in his Narayana a ; history of Backerganj. Gopi Ramana’s second son Krishna Rama obtained the titles of Dewan and Krori (millionaire) from the Nawab of Murshida- bad. From anaccount given in the 5th of the reports of the East India Company, we see that he was employed in collecting revenue of Pergannah Chandpratapa and other places. The family resi- dence of Krisha Rama was at the village Japsa near Rajanagara. Lala Rama _ Prasada, his Ramagati. son was famous for his extensive charity. The Lala had four sons. The eldest Rama Gati was famous for his high character and learning; he wrote a well known work in Bengali called the Mayatimir Chandrika to which we shall have occa- sion to refer hereafter. The youngest Jayanarayana Jayanara- was one of the best poets in Bengal, and it was he yana and his niece, Who conjointly with his niece Anandamayi wrote the poem called Harilila which displays a wonder- ful command over the language and abounds in passages of intrinsic poetic merit. All the members of this gifted family of noble men, the ladies not ex- cepted, were well versed in Sanskrit. Anandamayt was widely known for her learning. She at one পর time surprised the scholarly Brahmins assembled in the court of Raja Rajavallabha to perform the Vedic sacrifice called the Agnistomayajna, by offer- ing the solution to a knotty point in connection with the sacrificial rite, with ample quotations from