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is separately treated of. He had many disciples, to whose instruction he confined the whole of his time, as he never entered in the matrimonial state. He died at Benares on the banks of the river Ganges. After his death, his works were much sought after by the pandits of Hindoostan, as the style of them was plain and perspicuous, and the versification very soft and harmonious.