History of Bengali Language and Literature

These lectures take a comprehensive view of the development of our vernacular, and their publication will unquestionably facilitate the historical investigation of the origin of the vernacular literature of this country, the study of which is avowedly one of the foremost objects of the new Regulations to promote. " vg, KANTA PUKUR LANE, Parivisar, Calcutta. [...] The message of Eastern India and the apostles of Bengal. —The environment of Chaitanya, 398-4o9. —Navadwipa the birth-place of Chaitanya —A seat of learning. —The Navya Nyaya. —Th nourishing condition of Navadwipa—Its area—Sceptical tendencies of the age. —The defects of the Renaissance—Bengal ready for a great faith—The advent of Chaitanya Deva, 409-414. [...] According to Manu, Bengal formed a part of the Aryyavarta. t The two great heroes of the Dwapara yuga, who are said to have been the sworn enemies of Cr; Kritcfia—thae great up . holder of Brahmanic power, were (1) JarAsandha, the King of Magadha and (2) Poundraka Vasu Deva, the King of Pandua in Bengal, and both of them led expeditions to Dwaraka to subvert the power of Krittfia. [...] The scriptures of the Japanese priests are still written in Bengali characters of the a ith century,* which indicates the once-great ascendency of the enterprising Bengali priests in the Land of the Rising Sun. [...] Thus the appointment of Bengali poets to the courts of tlindu Rajas, grew to be a fashion after the example of the Moslem chiefs, and we find most of the works of our best poets dedicated to the kings and noble men who patronised them.