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ment of modern prose—The Çunya Puraṅa—Deva Dāmara Tantra—Chaitya Rupa prapti—Prose works by Sahajiās—Logic and Law—Bhāṣā Parichchheda—Kaminī Kumara 830-844.


CHAPTER VII.

The Modern Age, 845-1002.

I. (a) The epoch ushered in by European workers—missionaries and Civilians 845—850.—Halhed's grammar, 848—Punches by Wilkins—Panchānana and Manohara—Crude printing already known in the country, 848-850.

(b) Dr. Carey and his collegues, 850—854.—Youngmen of Bengal anglicised 855.—Dr. Carey's Bengali works—The story of a thief—How 23 fish disappeared 855-867.

(c) Bengali works by Europeans, 867-878.

(d) A new ideal in the country 878-883.—The Pundits of the Fort William college—Mrittunjaya—Rāma Rāma Vasu—Rajiva Lochana—Kriṣṅa Chandra Charita, 883-896. The contributions to our natural literature by the Pandits, 897.

(e) The Rev. K. M. Banerji and other authors who followed in the wake of European writers,—K. M. Bannerjee, his works. A list of publications by other writers—Vocabulary—Grammar—History—Biography—Moral tales and other subjects—Periodicals, Magazines and Newspapers 900-912.

III. General remarks indicating the characteristics of the new age and its contrast with the earlier one, 912,—Specimens of the style of Bhattācharyas—Profulla Jnāna Netra—Sarvāmoda-taranginī—Lipimālā—Payāra Chhanda—Tripadi Chhanda—Bengali style of European writers—Babu-