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 VI.] BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. 719 impossible to find a perfect counterpart. His years do nothing to spoil his quality. They only serve to give him self-confidence and poise. Like a child he is now grave, now gay, sometimes petu- lant, sometimes despairing. But in the child all this is'purposeless. In Rama Prasada there is a deep intensity of purpose. Every sentence he has uttered is designed to sing the glory of his Mother.’’* The descendants of the saintly poet still live in The des- cendants the village of Kumarahatta. One of them Babu of the poet. Kali Pada Sen, a great grandson of Rama Prasada His death. Sen, is working as an Engineer in Orissa. Rama Prasada died in the year 1775 A. D. Before concluding my account of Rama Prasada, Two songs. I quote two more songs of his which are very popular amongst the villages. 7 t‘“No more shall I call you by that sweet name, ‘mother’! “You have given me woes unnumbered and re- D> served many more for me, I know! “T once had a home and family, and now you have made me such that 1 am disowned by all. ‘What other ills may yet befall me I cannot tell. 1 “মা মা বলে আর ডাকৃবনা | মা দিয়েছ, দ্রিতেছ কতই যাতনা ॥ আমি ছিলেম গৃহবাসী, বানালি সন্ন্যাসী, আর কি ক্ষমতা রাখ এলোকেশী ॥
 * Kali the Mother page 48.