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Rh done so, I could never have finished my version. Not only did he forego his desire of translating the Mahabharat, but took the trouble of going through my translation whenever he had leisure for it, and even personally attended my printing press and superintended the translation of the Mahabharat, when business called me away from Calcutta, now and then. In fact, language, written or spoken, cannot express the extent of benefits I have obtained from Vidyasagar in different forms at different times, since I was a student."

Before he commenced the translation of the Mahabharat, Vidyasagar had written two other Bengali books, Basudeva Charita and Vetala Panchavingsati. In the language of these two books he has amply proved his powers of translation, of which hereafter.

Babu Akshay Kumar Datta, the worthy editor of the "Tattvabodhini Patrika," having resigned his post for ill-health, a motion moved by Babu Kanai Lal Pain and seconded by Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar, was brought forward before a meeting of the Tattvabodhini Sabha for award of some pension to the able editor. Babu Devendra Nath Tagore opposed the motion. His argument was that the pension was allowable, if the income of the "Tattvabodhini Patrika" left a margin for it; but that when the income of the "Tattvabodhini Sabha" and that of the "Tattvabodhini Patrika" were combined, no such pension was judiciously and rightly