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80 A HISTORY OF HINDI LITERATURE however, a very dangerous tendency has too often heen shown in the history of the Krishna movement. Many of the writers mentioned in this chapter were poets of very high merit. The artistic influences which had come into Hindi literature are to be seen in a very marked degree in their work. Muttra, which was the centre of the movement, was in close proximity to the Mughal court, and Sur Das is said hy tradition to have had some connection with the court. But, through whatever channel the influence came, there is no doubt that the poets of Braj felt very strongly the tendencies towards the perfection of the poetic art, and the excellency and fame of their poetry was so great that from their time onwards Braj Bhasha came to be regarded as the chief poetic dialect of Hindi.