The con- tents of Annada- Mangala. 666 BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. [ Chap. woman again sings* ‘‘ What a foolish young man! He constantly says ‘aunt, give me my Vidya.’ Is she a jewel that a woman can keep tied in the end of her sadi and produce on demand!’’ These songs and hundreds of such, a attributed to Gopal Uriya and other Yatrawalas, were once in every man’s mouth. Their inspiration came direct from Bharata Chandra. In fact in the depraved atmos- phere of towns, directly affected by court-influence on the eve of the downfall of the Mahomedan power, Vidya-Sundara became the craze of the young dilettantes of Bengal who revelled in the literature of sensualism. The Annada Mangala by Bharata Chandra, of which Vidya Sundara forms a part, is divided into three parts... The. first part is devoted to the sac- rifice performed by Daksa, the death of Sati, her rebirth as Uma, her marriage with Civa and sub- sequent domestic scenes at Kailas. It also des- cribes the futile attempt of the sage Vyasa to build a second Benares, with the object of thwarting the God Civa, and gives account of Harihoda and Bha- bananda Mazumdar—ancestors of Raja Krisna Chandra. The second part describes the story of Vidya-Sundara. The last part is devoted to a description of the wars of Raja Pratapaditya of Jessore with Man Sing, the Governor of Bengal,
- কোথাকার হাব! ছেলে হাসি পায় শুনে,
সদা বলে কই মাসি তুই বিদ্যা দিলিনে, আচলে কি বাধা আছে দিব তা এনে 2" Sung in Gopala Uriya’s yatra.
