History of Bengali Language and Literature c7.s5.46

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(8) Çivāyana by Rāmeçvara. This is a voluminous work and was written about 1750 A. D. Rāmeçvara was appointed by Rājā Yaçovanta Siṁha of Karṇagaḍa to write his Çivāyana. It enjoys great popularity. The poet was a native of Yadupur near the police station of Ghāṭāl in the district of Midnāpur where a zemindar named Hemāyata Siṁha oppressed him so greatly that he was obliged to leave his ancestral home and settle at Karṇagaḍa in the same district. Rāmeçvara belonged to the Rāḍhīya Brahmin class. His father was one Lakṣmaṇa Chakravarty and his mother's name was Rūpavatī.