740 BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. [ Chap. within the first fifties of the 19th century ; hence we include him within the range of our treatise. When Krisha Kamala was brought to the Ganges
at Chinsura and his last moment arrived, his eldest son Nitya Gopala Gosvami wept like a child, lament- ing that after the death of the master of the house, | ; ! he would be quite unfit to govern it. The dying poet, who had till then retained his senses and power of ণ speech, addressed his weeping son and said*:—‘‘My The dying son, do not weep. I really never knew that I was noe the master of the house. I knew you all to belong to God and as such it was my duty to offer my humble services to you all my life. Though you were my children, | kept away from my mind the vanity of knowing myself as the master. Guide | yourselves in the light of this principle, and you will be ever happy.” We have a few yatra poems interspersed with 7 prose by authors who lived inthe 17th and 18th PYPRE. centuries. Some of these are mentioned below :— 1. Duti Sanvada by Rama Vallabha. 2. Vidya Sundara Gayan. The name of the author is not known. Here is a song of Hira, the flower-woman from this work. eC qeH, কাতর হইও না। তোমর। গিরিধারীর ; এই জ্ঞানে এতাব২ং শামি তোমাদের সেবা করিয়াছি, পালন করি নাই। প্রতিপালনের কত্তা গিরিধারীকে জানিও। এই ভাব লইয়। ংসার করিও ; কগ পাইবে না।"' Krom the biography of Krisha Kamala, by his son Nitya Gopaéla Gosvami.
