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)

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distret^ed mother, and promises to take special care, of
the sc^i. Srimanta Sadagar sets sail and in due time
reaches Ceylon after witnessing the strange damsel on
the lotus whom his father had seen. He ?epeats the
s'tory to the King of Ceylon who orders him to be exe-
cuted for his lie. Poor Srimanta is led to * the place of»
execution but still remains unaltered in his faith towards
Chandi, who^m he addresses in the thirty-four letters of the
Bengali alphabet;—an address which Bharat Chandra
has imitated in his Bidya Sundar. The goddess descends

in the shape of an old Brahman woman, and ultimately
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