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Kashiram Das or Kāśīrām Dās ( Bengali: কাশীরাম দাস, pronounced [ka.ʃi.raˑm d̪aˑʃ]; born 16th century) is an important poet in medieval Bengali literature. His Bengali re-telling of the Mahābhārata, known as Kāśīdāsī Môhābhārôt, is a popular and influential version of the Mahābhārata legend in Bengal ...
t. e. The Manusmṛti ( Sanskrit: मनुस्मृति ), also known as the Mānava-Dharmaśāstra or the Laws of Manu, is one of the many legal texts and constitutions among the many Dharmaśāstras of Hinduism. [1] [2] Over fifty manuscripts of the Manusmriti are now known, but the earliest discovered, most translated and presumed ...
Barnaparichay is a Bengali primer written by 19th century Indian social reformer Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar. It was first published in 1855. This is considered as "The Most Influential Primer of Bengal". The primer had two parts. This reflected Vidayasagar's knowledge, expertise and background as a Sanskrit scholar. The success of the first part of the primer inspired Vidyasagar to work on the ...
Starting in 2010, every year free books are distributed to students between Grade-1 to Grade-10 to eliminate illiteracy. These books comprise most of the curricula of the majority of Bangladeshi schools. There are two versions of the curriculum. One is the Bengali language version and the other one is English language version.
Plot. The story revolves around the prince of Magadha, Hemchandra and his lover Mrinalini, a middle-class girl from Mathura. When they both falls in love, Hemchandra becomes weak and forgets about his duties for his country. Yavana captured his kingdom but instead of fighting with Yavanas he was marrying secretly with Mrinalini.
The Bhadralok class appears frequently in popular Bengali literature, including in the novel and stories of Saratchandra Chattopadhyay and Rabindranath Tagore. Kaliprasanna Singha in his famous book Hootum Pyanchar Naksha sarcastically criticized the class's social attitude and hypocrisy during its ascension to prominence in the nineteenth century.
The first Bengali translation was made in prose by Nalini Mohan Sanyal in 1939. [1] It was published by Bangiya Sahitya Parishad, with a foreword by the eminent Bengali Scholar Suniti Kumar Chatterjee. However, the work is presently out of print, with the only copy available at the National Library in Kolkata. [2]
Sahaj Path ( Bengali: সহজ পাঠ) is a Bengali language learning book, written by Rabindranath Tagore. [1] In two of its edition this book describes the basics of Bengali language and literature. The first edition (প্রথম ভাগ) has the preliminary ideas of Bengali alphabet, their structures, pronunciation; while the ...