IV.] BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. 279 songs, means yigil. These facts imply that poems _ Rayani about Manasa Devi used to be recited during the এ night. This happens during the whole of the Bengali month of Cravana. Vijay Gupta was born in the year 1448 in the Fullagri— village of Fullacgriin the district of Backergunge. লিক 7 The pot with which he worshipped Manasa Deviis the poet. stillpreserved there in the temple dedicated to the goddess. Fullacri is a well-known village, and is the birth place of many scholars whose names are not unfamiliar to the literary world. Kavindra Trilochana Das, Janaki Nath Kavikanthhara, Bhavani Nath Das Saraswati, Raghu Ram Das Kanthabharna and Kavikarnapur were all inhabitants of this
particular village and Vijay Gupta with just pride speaks of it as Pandit Nagar or City of scholars. Here are some of his opening lines :— “In Caka 1406 (1484 A.D.) Husen Saha is the i. ৪2 Emperor of Gauda, and Raja Arjuna as the morn- __ ing lines, ing sun of war rules Muluk Fateabad (the modern Faridpur and a part of Backergunge) which ex- tends up to Bangrora. On the west lies the river Ghagara, on the east the river Ghante¢vara, and bet- ween them the village of Fullagri, City of scholars. Brahmins versed in four Vedas, and Vaidyas skilled ছায়াশূন্যবেদশশীপরিমিত শক । সনাতন হুসেন সাহ নৃপতি তিলক ॥ উত্তরে অর্জনরাজ! প্রতাপেতে যম । মুলুক ফতেয়াবাদ বঙ্গরোড়া তক সীম ॥ পশ্চিমে ঘাঘর নদী পুব্বে ACCS | মধ্যে ফুলশ্রা গ্রাম পণ্ডিতনগর ॥
