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 - 39 BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. [ Chap. 4 [ 2. Rasu Narasinha, resident of Gondalpara, 8051 La near Chandernagara. Lalu Nandalala. 5. Haru Thakura (Hare Krishna Dirghangi) born in 1738 at Simla in Calcutta. One of his songs runs thus :-—. Soak +“ The dark night is still. Its silence is broken hth from time to time by thunderous clouds. The bird chatak and the peacock are happy to hear the sound. Tell me, O my maids, where is my Krishna now ? The fragrance of the kadamva, the ketaki, the jati, the champaka and the sewuti flowers fills | the air. They remind me of Krisna, who is not with me. The fire-flies dance and the lightning flashes, and the scene is suddenly lit up as if by day-light. The bird sadz sits quietly with her mate and they touch each other with their bills in love. Where is my Krisna, O my maids, at this hour ?” { raries of Raghu. + ““ম্থধীর ধারে বহিছে এই ঘোরতর! রজনী ॥ এ সময়ে প্রাণ সখীরে, কোথায় গুণমণি; ঘন গরজে ঘন শুনি ॥ ী TA ময়,রী zafas, হেরি চাতক চাতকিনী॥ এ কদন্ম কেতকী চম্পক জাতি সেউতি সেফালিকে। ঘ্বাণেতে প্রাণেতে মোহ জন্মায় প্রাণনাথে গৃহে না দেখে॥ বিছ্যাত খদ্যোত দিবা জ্যোতিময় প্রকাশে দিনমণি | প্রিয়মুখে মণ দিয়ে সারিশুক থাকে দিবস রজনী”
 * The three bards whose names are bracketted were contempo-