Obscure Religious Cults as Background of Bengali Literature c19.22

c19.22

¹ *Vide*, Śūnya-purāṇa, pp. 100, 219. The triangular land (*tekaṇā medinī*) of Dharma referred to in the Śūnya-purāṇa seems to be Ceylon; but we should notice in this connection that in the Dharma-maṅgala of Dvija-rām-candra we find Siṃhala to be a village situated somewhere in West Bengal. Cf. *bālighāṭ surānadi dekhe bāma-bhite* | *rākhila siṃhal grām dekhite dekhite* || MS. C. U. No. 2464, p. 6 (A). But nowhere in the Dharma-maṅgalas do we find any tradition of this Siṃhala's being the original place (*ādya sthāna*) of Dharma.