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EBOOK CHAITANYA AND THE VAISHNAVA POETS ***


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This eBook was produced at BharatLiterature by Chetan Jain.


CHAITANYA AND THE VAISHNAVA POETS OF BENGAL

THE
INDIAN ANTIQUARY,

A JOURNAL OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
IN
ARCH?†OLOGY, HISTORY, LITERATURE, LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION,
FOLKLORE, &c., &c., &c.

EDITED BY
JAS. BURGESS, M.R.A.S., F.R.G.S.

VOL. II.--1873
[Bombay, Education Society's Press]
{Scanned and edited by Christopher M. Weimer, May 2002}

CHAITANYA AND THE VAISHNAVA POETS OF BENGAL.
STUDIES IN BENGALI POETRY OF THE FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES.
BY JOHN BEAMES, J.C.S., M.R.A.S. &c.

THE PADKALPATARU, or 'wish-granting tree of song,' may be considered as
the scriptures of the Vaish.nava sect in Bengal. In form it is a
collection of songs written by various poets in various ages, so
arranged as to exhibit a complete series of poems on the topics and
tenets which constitute the religious views of the sect.
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