The Descriptive Catalogue of Bengali Manuscripts (Padavali and Biographies of Caitanya Deva)

For eight hours in the night we Ramayanic episodes from a very old and rotten suffered from terrible inelemencies of the manuscript of the epic which had been in weather the roar of tigers accentuating the his house since the days of one of his alarm and crisis of our situation. [...] In spite of all short-oomings on the part of Ramkumar great credit is to be given to him for the huge collection of old Bengali manuscripts that now adorn the libraries of the University of Calcutta and Saltily& Perished. [...] the presence of a Bhasitt in every pada is not an absolute necessity for the purpose of identification for even in the absence of it the pads may reasoably be attributed to the author of the whole poem in which it is included but in the isolated padas the Blia9itie serve the primary object of identification though it cannot be said that absolute relinee should be put on them without further [...] Whet the matter Mime to such a pass it is no wonder that the Vaienavas should consider themselves the followers of the Sakbis and the poets should associate themselves with the Martians in the colophons Prom the manuscripts that we have been able to consult we find that the books whattio there are colophons with lltutijsris are coparatively modern. [...] It therefore appears to us that the name of Narottama has been entered into the above noted three books by persons One of whom was the follower of Gulp Mafijari the second of the Anafiga Mafijari and the third of the Raps %Ned.