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Sudan Datta has evinced in any degree the power of je-
producing in poetical descriptions the real spirit of vfar.

CHAPTER X.

* Makunda Eam Chakravarti.

Contemporaneous with Kirtibas Ojha H,ved Makunda
Ram Chakravarti at the close of the sixteenth century,
■who has fortunately left us a more detailed account of
himself and his times than almost any other Bengali poet.
He was born in the village of Damunya, in ^he Thana of
Selimabad, in the District of Burdwan^ and was the son
of Hridaya Misra, and the grandson of Jagannath Misra;
and he had an elder brother of th,e name of Kabi Chandra.
He tells us that when Mansmg became the ruler of
Bengal, the oppression of the subordinate Muhammadan
officers drove him from his home, and that after long
wanderings he found' a kind protector in Bankura Deb,
Zemindar of the Pargana of Brahmanbhumi in the Dis-
trict of Midnapur. The seat of this Zemindar was in
the village of Anra, and he engaged the learned guest
as a tutor to his son, Raghunath, who subsequently suc-
ceeded his father in the estate, and finds frequent men-
tion in the poet's work.

It is so seldom that a poet leaves us an account "of
himself and his times, the account which Makunda Ram
has left us is so graphic and minute, that we cannot re-