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96 everything connected with his life. The Raja was highly delighted at his conversation, and at once knew him to be a highly talented man. Isvar Chandra was, at that time, an ordinary youth with only the title Vidyasagar recently obtained from his College. He was not then the famous, great Vidyasagar of later years.

It was in this Sobhabazar Raj house that Vidyasagar was acquainted with Babu Akshay Kumar Dutt, one of the greatest Bengali writers, and formed an intimacy with him. Akshay Babu was not then the Editor of the Tattvabodhini Patrika. An association called the Tattvabodhini Sabha had been formed in connection with the Brahmo Samaj in the month of October, 1839. From the year 1843, this association began to publish a Bengali monthly magazine, called the Tattvabodhini Patrika, under the care and patronage of Babu Devendra Nath Tagore and some other eminent men of the time. Akshay Babu had been a member of this association from the beginning, and he was afterwards intrusted with the edition of this magazine, which he did honestly and creditably for twelve years, up to 1855.

All the contributions to the Tattvabodhini Patrika passed through the hands of Ananda Krishna Babu and some other educated men of the time, who had to go through the articles, and make necessary corrections. One day, when Vidyasagar was sitting with Ananda Krishna Babu in the latter's house,