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IV.] BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. 34 and names all-his ancestors, concluding the list with blessings on his eidest son Civara m. All this shows how, though cut off from Damunya, his mind was yet full of pleasant recollections of its scenes. The river Ratnanu, the village god Chakraditya, and even the temple erected by Vrisa Datta, and the dear friends whom he could never hope to meet again for many long years, inspired his imagination and were sacredly kept in 1015 memory. We may imagine him to look wistfully towards Damunya from the far off Brahmanbhumi, even as Adam did towards the garden of Eden after bidding it a last farewell. Towards the last years of his life when the economic stability of the country was improved, he returned to Damunya and there erected a small temple which he dedicated to the worship of the goddess Chandi. This deity was named by him Simhabghini, the goddess who rides ona lion, and she is still worshipped there. The manuscript of Chandi Kavya written by his own hands was till lately in the custody of his descendant Jogendra Nath Bhattacharyya and I had it copied by a Pundit under the direction of the Bangyia Sahitya Parisat of Calcutta. We have seen a deed of gift under the seal and signature of Barakhan, Governor of Pergunnah Selimabad, dated 1640 A.D. conferring the right of twenty bighas of land on Civaram Bhattacharyya, the eldest son of Mukundaram, of whom the poet speaks so often in his Chandi Mangal. Mukundaram, who his generally known by his title of _Kavikankan, finished his celebrated Chandi