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70 LITERATURE OP BENGAL.
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of India has been handed down from generation to gene-
ration in this simple at'badian style, and vestiges of such
institutions, somewhat altered and disorganized, are still
to be found in Nadiya and many other parts of India.
Thus, under the Hindu, the Muhammadan, and even the
Euglish rule, these quiet thinkers and professors have from I
century to century preserved arid propounded the ancient
lore of India, and often started new questions in philosophy
or law, despising all exotic wisdom and foreign langu-
ages,—be it the Persian, the Arabic, or the English,—
and forgetting, and forgotten by, a world of unquiet and
aspiring statesmen and politicians, merchants, traders acid
men of the world. *
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Cnaitanya, then, set himself up as a tutor, gathered
pupils around hipi, and his fame as a man of deep learn-
ing increased day by day. His reputation spread
throughout ant1, beyond the limits of Nadiya. Ha baffled |
those (Digvijayi was one) who came to beat him in learn-
ed controversies, and satisfied others ( Tapan Misra &c,)
who came in all humility to havettheir doubts explained.
After winning the admiration of all in his native place,
he left his country and travelled into Eastern Bengal
(Banga Desa.) Thither too his fame had spread, and
numbers of people flocked around him to have the bene- I
fit of his instructions. He reached the banks of the
Padmavati (Padma 1) and dwelt there for some months,
instructing an ever-increasing circle of friends. He then
returned to his native place, but before he reached it
his beloved wife had breathed her last. Lakshmi loved
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of India has been handed down from generation to gene-
ration in this simple at'badian style, and vestiges of such
institutions, somewhat altered and disorganized, are still
to be found in Nadiya and many other parts of India.
Thus, under the Hindu, the Muhammadan, and even the
Euglish rule, these quiet thinkers and professors have from I
century to century preserved arid propounded the ancient
lore of India, and often started new questions in philosophy
or law, despising all exotic wisdom and foreign langu-
ages,—be it the Persian, the Arabic, or the English,—
and forgetting, and forgotten by, a world of unquiet and
aspiring statesmen and politicians, merchants, traders acid
men of the world. *
j
Cnaitanya, then, set himself up as a tutor, gathered
pupils around hipi, and his fame as a man of deep learn-
ing increased day by day. His reputation spread
throughout ant1, beyond the limits of Nadiya. Ha baffled |
those (Digvijayi was one) who came to beat him in learn-
ed controversies, and satisfied others ( Tapan Misra &c,)
who came in all humility to havettheir doubts explained.
After winning the admiration of all in his native place,
he left his country and travelled into Eastern Bengal
(Banga Desa.) Thither too his fame had spread, and
numbers of people flocked around him to have the bene- I
fit of his instructions. He reached the banks of the
Padmavati (Padma 1) and dwelt there for some months,
instructing an ever-increasing circle of friends. He then
returned to his native place, but before he reached it
his beloved wife had breathed her last. Lakshmi loved