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 years only. After it, appeared the ’Banga Duta,' under the joint management of Raja Ram Mohan Ray and Babus Devendra Nath and Prasanna Kumar Tagores. In the beginning of 1831, Babu Jogendra Mohan Tagore of Pathureaghata started the "Sangbada Prabhakara" under the editorship of Isvar Chandra Gupta. With the death of the starter in a few years, his paper also lost its life. Isvar Chandra then became editor of the "Sangbada Ratnabali," but in a short time, he gave it over. He again revived the "Sangbada Prabhakara" in 1836. It was then made tri-weekly; and in 1839, it was made a daily paper. About the time that this paper was renewed, or a little before it, appeared "Purna Chandrodaya." In the first year, it appeared on every full-moon day, whence its name. In the next year it was made a weekly, and in a few more years, it was also converted to a daily paper. There was also another newspaper, titled the "Sangbada Mrityunjaya." It had one great peculiarity. Everything in the paper, from the advertisements down to the news, appeared in poetry. None of these papers had before been conducted so ably as the Soma-Prakasa. It excelled all its predecessors in every respect.

To resume our narrative: on the 13th January 1860, Vidyasagar republished, in pamphlet forms, those portions of his Bengali version of the Mahabharata, which had already appeared in the Tattva