History of Bengali Language and Literature c7.s6.151

c7.s6.151

Vijay Gupta was born in the year 1448 in the village of Fullaçrī in the district of Backergunge. The pot with which he worshipped Manasā Devī is still preserved there in the temple dedicated to the goddess. Fullaçrī is a well-known village, and is the birth place of many scholars whose names are not unfamiliar to the literary world. Kavīndra Trilochana Dās, Jānakī Nāth Kavikaṇṭhāra, Bhavānī Nāth Dās Saraswātī, Raghu Rām Dās Kaṇṭhābharaṇa and Kavikarṇapur were all inhabitants of this particular village and Vijay Gupta with just pride speaks of it as Pandit Nagar or City of scholars. Here are some of his opening lines :—