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 editions, without annotation, of Shishupala-Badha, Kadambari, Kiratarjjuniya, Raghu-Vansa and Harsa-Charita. Three selections from standard English authors were also put out by him.

It was about this time that the holy saint Ramakrisna Paramahansa with some of his devotees came to visit Vidyasagar. Two of the greatest souls of the age met and rejoiced in each other's company. They entered into an entrancing conversation and the audience thoroughly enjoyed "the feast of reason and the flow of soul," which they had naturally anticipated from such a meeting. After partaking of some light refreshments which opportunely arrived at that instant from Burdwan, the sage took his departure.

Contemporaneously with the widow-marriage movement Vidyasagar had organised another agitation to alter the custom of taking a plurality of wives as a means of subsistence. This practice of unrestricted polygamy among the Kulin Brahmins of