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² See above p. 65. 3 Printed from the Bhakti-prabhā Office, Hugli 1936, in Bengali characters. There is a MS of the work in the Dacca University Library (no. 1402) in Bengali script, with 17 folios. The MS contains 15 cantos and a total of 141 verses, excluding songs which are separately numbered (the 16th canto of the printed text really consists of four extra Namaskriyā verses, which are added after the colophon by the Dacca University MS, but which are not taken as forming an extra canto, there being no formal colophon after them naming a 16th canto). One of the opening (no. 6) and one of the concluding (no. 138) verses pay homage to Caitanya as Gaura and Sacinandana respectively. 4 A. B. Kathvate, Report on the Search of Skr. MSS, 1891-95, Bombay 1901, p. 38, no. 577; the number of verses is not mentioned, but since the MS contains only 11 folios (with 11 lines on a page) it cannot be a very long poem. It is, however, said that Prabodhānanda composed this work in one hundred Satakas, of which seventeen