History of Bengali Language and Literature c7.s3.2

c7.s3.2

∗ Complete editions of the love-songs of Vidyāpati and Chandīdās are expected shortly to be published with copious annotations by two Bengali scholars. Vidyāpati is being edited by Babu Nagendra Nath Gupta under the patronage and directions of Babu Sarada Charan Mitter, late Judge of the Calcutta High Court and the credit of collecting a large number of hitherto unknown poems of Chandīdās belongs to Babu Nilratan Mukherjee, Head Master, Kirnahār School in the district of Bīrbhum. Each of the two compilations will contain about a thousand poems or padas. This is far ahead of the number of padas hitherto extant in the country.