Obscure Religious Cults as Background of Bengali Literature c2.119

c2.119

[Cosmogonical and cosmological accounts of the vernaculars represent mainly a jumbling of older ideas—account given in the Śūnya-purāṇa—in the Dharma-pūjā-vidhāna—versions of Sahadev Cakravarti and Sitarām-dās—of Anādi-maṅgala of Rām-dās Ādak—account given by Ghana-rām—by Māṇik Gāṅguli—by Narasiṃha Vasu—account given in the Gājana-songs of West Bengal—in the Caṇḍi-maṅgala of Māṇik Datta—of Mukunda-rām—of Mādhavācārya—in the Annadā-maṅgala of Bhārat-candra and others—account given in the Nātha literature in texts like *Anādi-purāṇa*, or *Anādi-carita*, *Hāḍamālā-tantra*, *Yogi-tantra-kalā*, etc.—in *Gorakṣa-vijaya*—in *Gopī-candrer Sannyāsa*—account found in the Vaiṣṇava-Literature of Orissa—account given by Kabīr—by Sundar-dās, Tulasī-dās and others.