Dutt, Romesh Chunder: The literature of Bengal: being an attempt to trace the progress of the national mind in its various aspects, as reflected in the nation’s literature from the earliest times to the present day ; with copious extracts from the best writers (Calcutta, 1877)

132 LITERATURE OV BENGAL. '

• At Ujjaini, Khullona has a sou whom she uamed
Sripati or Srimanta. In* course of time the mfaHv. grows
up to'a boy, aud with other boys, goes to the village
Patshala.' One day, the guru gets enraged with Srimanta
and taunts him in very vulgar terms in reference to the
'"absence of 'nis father. The boy returns home, and,
though of tender years, resolves on going in auest of his
father. All persuasion is in vain, the boy Jhas the de-
termination of a man, and has made up his mind. In
very, pathetic terms he takes leave of his mother and
says:—

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Poor Khullona has not the heart to let her son go
to thuv'uiotafit region'from whose bourne his father had
not returned; but Chandi comes down, consoles the

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