History of Bengali Language and Literature c9.s3.8

c9.s3.8

Govinda Das was a blacksmith by caste. "I used," he writes, "to make weapons, ladles and tongs; my mother's name is Mādhavi; my wife Çaçīmukhī quarrelled with me and called me an illiterate fool. Feeling greatly, insulted I left home one morning."*