History of Bengali Language and Literature c10.s2.91

c10.s2.91

Amongst those who have composed religious songs, there is no higher name than that of Rāma Prasāda Sen. Born in the quiet village of Kumārahatta, near a station on the East Bengal Railway, in 1718, he was at first influenced by the depraved taste of the court of Rājā Kriṣṇa Chandra of Navadwipa. It may have been owing to satisfy the Rājā or his own youthful poetic vanity, that he wrote the indecent poem of Vidyā Sundara which was very soon after its composition, outdone by the more brilliant Vidyā Sundara by Bhārata Chandra. Soon after this Rāma Prasāda retired to his native village, where the Panchamundi or seat on which he sat day and night to practise Yoga, is still to be seen.