IV.] BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. — 471 এ 50 11579) 0 my father, O Lord of my soul, । hast Thou gone and left me,’ and he fell on the bare ground and his handsome person was _ besmeared with dust.
(c) Chaitanya Mangal by Jayananda.
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_ The next biographical account of Chaitanya
‘Deva that we come across, was written by
_Jayananda. Jayananda was born in 1513 A. D
‘He belonged to a family, from which sprang
-Raghunandan, the law-giver of Bengal of the 16th
‘century. Jayananda’s father Subuddhi Micra, was
a noted personality of the Vaisnava community,
about whom frequent references are found in
Govinda Das’s_ kadcha, Vaisnavacharadarpana,
Charitamrita and other works. Jayananda when
a child saw Chaitanya in the house of his grand-
father. He was commonly called by the pet name
of Guia. It is said that Chaitanya took some
interest in the boy and gave him the Sanskritic
name of Jayananda, by which he was latterly
known.
There are certain historical points, in which
Jayananda differs from other writers, and from the
traditions current in the country. Itis generally
believed that Chaitanya’s father Jagannath Micra
was originally an inhabitant of Dhakadaksina in
Sylhet. But Jayananda refers to Jayanagar in
Sylhet as the native village of Jagannath Micra.
The Mahomedan devotee, who obtained a great
celebrity in the Vaisnava community under the
name of Hari Das, by his staunch devotion to
- ক্ষ্ণরে বাপরে তোমায় পাইব কোথায় ॥
Jayananda, born 1513 A.D. The new facts brought to light by him.
