The style has unfortunately been much modernized, but
even so, the book is one of the oldest extant works in Bengali. My
esteemed friend Babu Jagadishnath Ray has kindly gone through the book,
a task for which I had not leisure, and marked some of the salient
points for me.] His mother was Sachi Debi, daughter of Nil??mbar
Chakravarti. She bore to Jagann??th eight daughters who all died young;
her first-born child, however, was a son named Biswar??p, who afterwards
under the name of Nity??nand became the chief disciple of his more
famous brother. Bisambhar was born at Nadiya in the evening of the
_Purnima_ or day of the full moon of Ph??lgun 1407 Sak??bda,
corresponding to the latter part of February or beginning of March A.D.
1486. It is noted that there was an eclipse of the moon on that day.
By the aid of these indications those who care to do so can find out
the exact day. [Footnote: There was an eclipse of the moon before
midnight Feb. 18, O.S. 1486.] The passages in the original are:--
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