Eastern Bengal Ballads Mymansing 1922-24

;Secretary to the India Society for Holland, addressed men long letter on this topic in January W23, drawing attention to the fact that the accounts of the birth of 'Sao and of the jealousy of Kukua as given Chandrrivati also uce in the Javanese and Malaya, versions of the namayana. [...] of his songs by the University of Calcutta, and under the auspices of the lionThle Sir Isutosh 34lookerjee, whose zeal in the cause of the furtherance of Vernacular literature is well-known, the Syndicate offered him a post, for one year for the present, on a small pay, so that he might go on collecting these songs all the months of the year. [...] Front the south of thlh (inn) Hills ‘vhere begin the territories of the Rajas of Sasauf. r to the northern frontiers of the district of Dacca, comprising. [...] of the tract of land covered by Susun:t and Garo hills on the north, run over by the rivers Somlq!swari and the 1Candrsa, and gradually passing to the south-east, glance at the sub-divisions of Netrakona Eind Kishoganj, and then wend our course to the south-west up to thr limits of Bhowal including Kapasia, 'ran ail and some portions of Savar and nanikganj, now forming the northern limits of the D [...] In the Bengali poems written in the 17th and the 18th centuries, this artiliciality reached its clinax, Jaynarayan, the East Bengal poet of the ltqti century, puts the followin piece of advice in the mouth of Chandra Blinn, the hero, in his address to his consort Sunetra ork the eve of his startinz on a sea- voyage.