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 Chandra so much offended him that he was compelled to cut up all connection with the erring son. Dinamayi Devy felt the unnatural separation most keenly and tried to effect a reconciliation without success. The offence must have been serious seeing that it dried up the fount of parental affection from such a large heart as that of Vidyasagar. He whose eyes brimmed over with tears at the slightest distress of strangers must have had good reason when he became so severe towards his only son. Yet he always gave willing aid to the wife and children of Narayan Chandra.

On the 15th June of this year the "Hindu Family Annuity Fund" was established with the object of giving people of small means an opportunity of making provision after their death for their near relations. To start with it received liberal donatives from some men of substance. The Paikpara Raj, for instance, contributed Rs 2500. For the first two years Vidyasagar and the Hon'ble Justice Dwaraka Nath Mitter