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16* LITERATURE OF BENGAL.
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who flourished in the beginning of the sixteenth century,
asserts that Jayadeva was contemporaneous with Lakshma-
na Sena, King of Bengal, who reigned in the twelfth
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century. The learned Sanatana writing in the sixteenth
century had at his command facts and proofs which we
do not possess at the present day, and, we may be certain
he was not mistaken. The Vaishna^as of the sixteenth
century too, as we learn from their writings, were passion-
ately fond of the songs of Jayadeva, Vidyapati and
Chandri/as, and looked back with an affectionate ardour
on those earlier representatives of Vaishnava thought and
feelings; and their investigations and knowledge regard-
ing such earlier poets must have been minute and pro-
found.
Very little is kqown of the life of this, the earliest poet
of Bengal. He was born in Kendubilwa better known as
Kenduli, about eighteen miles from Suri in the district
of Birbhum. His father's name was Bhojadeva, and his
mother's Bamadevi.* In early life Jayadeva left home,
and it is said, began preaching the faith and love of
* We shall briefly notice in a note a somewhat uninteresting
discussion as to whether the poet Jayadeva is identical with a
logician of the same name who obtained the title Pakshadhara Misra.
Haridas Hirachand, the learned editor of Dhatu, manjari and Kavya
Kalapa, speaking of the poet says, "Jayadeva from his infancy used
to take his lesson once a fortnight from his teacher, hence his other
name was Pakshadhara Misra or a fortnightly student. He was
an able Logician, Rhetorician, Dramatist, Songster" &c FitzEdward
Hall supports this view; but Baboo Rajani Kanta Gupta, in his
sensible and well-written pamphlet on the life of Jayadeva, success-
fully combats this supposition, and we believe the Baboo is perfectly
"correct. To shew that the homeless wanderer who sang and preached
the love of Krishna all over Bengal and out of Bengal, was also an
accurate metaphysician and a scholar, requires stronger evidence
th*D has yet been adduced,
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who flourished in the beginning of the sixteenth century,
asserts that Jayadeva was contemporaneous with Lakshma-
na Sena, King of Bengal, who reigned in the twelfth
t
century. The learned Sanatana writing in the sixteenth
century had at his command facts and proofs which we
do not possess at the present day, and, we may be certain
he was not mistaken. The Vaishna^as of the sixteenth
century too, as we learn from their writings, were passion-
ately fond of the songs of Jayadeva, Vidyapati and
Chandri/as, and looked back with an affectionate ardour
on those earlier representatives of Vaishnava thought and
feelings; and their investigations and knowledge regard-
ing such earlier poets must have been minute and pro-
found.
Very little is kqown of the life of this, the earliest poet
of Bengal. He was born in Kendubilwa better known as
Kenduli, about eighteen miles from Suri in the district
of Birbhum. His father's name was Bhojadeva, and his
mother's Bamadevi.* In early life Jayadeva left home,
and it is said, began preaching the faith and love of
* We shall briefly notice in a note a somewhat uninteresting
discussion as to whether the poet Jayadeva is identical with a
logician of the same name who obtained the title Pakshadhara Misra.
Haridas Hirachand, the learned editor of Dhatu, manjari and Kavya
Kalapa, speaking of the poet says, "Jayadeva from his infancy used
to take his lesson once a fortnight from his teacher, hence his other
name was Pakshadhara Misra or a fortnightly student. He was
an able Logician, Rhetorician, Dramatist, Songster" &c FitzEdward
Hall supports this view; but Baboo Rajani Kanta Gupta, in his
sensible and well-written pamphlet on the life of Jayadeva, success-
fully combats this supposition, and we believe the Baboo is perfectly
"correct. To shew that the homeless wanderer who sang and preached
the love of Krishna all over Bengal and out of Bengal, was also an
accurate metaphysician and a scholar, requires stronger evidence
th*D has yet been adduced,