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 344. BENGALI LITERATURE derived their poetical origin from Gotijlé Gumi. The poetical relationship may be thus indicated : Gomjla Gumi Raghunath Das Lalu Nandalal Ramji = | Nitai Bairagi Bhabani Banik Rasu and Haru | l Nrsirhha Thakur 75705087008 Ram Basu Nilu and Bhola Ram-prasad Mayara Thakur During the time of Gormjla 07010 and his three diseipl- es, we have no record of the existence of ‘rival parties’ - or of any ‘poetical combats’ which obtained so much in later times and which was indeed an essential characteristic of this form of entertainment. It was in the next genera- tion that we hear for the first time of rivalries and opposi- tions between Nitai Das and Bhabani, between Haru Thakur and Krsna Chandra Charmakar (Kesta Muchi), between young Ram Basu and Haru Thakur who must have been an old man at this time, as Ram Basu’s ‘ reply’ at one of these fights seem to imply.’ Of Lalu WNandalal’s composition Lalu Nandalal. ২ ‘ : Isvar Gupta has given only one specimen which deserves to be quoted.’ হলে! এই স্থুখোলাভো পীরিতে। চিরদিন গেল কীদিতে ॥ হয়েছে না হবে কলঙ্ক আমার গিয়েছে না যাবে কুল। ডুবেছি না ডুব দেখি পাতালো কত দূর | —_————
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 * Tt runs thus : Hea Tora al আর বিস্তর দিন।

তৌমার চক্রে ধরেছে পৌঁফা! ্বর্ণরেখ! অতি ক্ষীণ ॥ 2 Sathbad Prabhakar, loc. cit.