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    Chaitanya and the Vaishnava Poets of Bengal
    Chaitanya and the Vaishnava Poets of Bengal
    Chaitanya and the Vaishnava Poets of Bengal
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    Chaitanya and the Vaishnava Poets of Bengal

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    Chaitanya and the Vaishnava Poets of Bengal
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    John Beames

    John Beames (1837–1902) was a civil servant in British India and an author. He served in the Indian Civil Service from 1859 until his retirement in 1893. He was also a scholar of Indian history, literature and linguistics. His great work was a comparative grammar of Indo-Aryan languages, and he poured his extensive experience of India into his Memoirs of a Bengal Civilian.

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      Title: Chaitanya and the Vaishnava Poets of Bengal

      Author: John Beames

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      CHAITANYA AND THE VAISHNAVA POETS OF BENGAL

      THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY,

      A JOURNAL OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH

      IN

      ARCHÆOLOGY, HISTORY, LITERATURE, LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION,

      FOLKLORE, &c., &c., &c.

      EDITED BY

      JAS. BURGESS, M.R.A.S., F.R.G.S.

      VOL. II.—1873

      [Bombay, Education Society's Press]

      {Scanned and edited by Christopher M. Weimer, May 2002}

      CHAITANYA AND THE VAISHNAVA POETS OF BENGAL.

      STUDIES IN BENGALI POETRY OF THE FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES.

      BY JOHN BEAMES, J.C.S., M.R.A.S. &c.

      THE PADKALPATARU, or 'wish-granting tree of song,' may be considered as the scriptures of the Vaish.nava sect in Bengal. In form it is a collection of songs written by various poets in various ages,

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