768 BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. [ Chap. ‘Tf Kuvera, the god of wealth. were to come with all these and offer them to me, “T would cast them all away for this my love’s first kiss.”’ But Icvara'Chandra will always be admired for the pains he took to collect biographical accounts of some of our early poets, as Bharata Chandra, Rama Prassda and some of the old kaviwalas. He travelled in various places of Bengal to unearth Biographi- ee valuable materials, and regularly published in Sam- vad Prabhakara, the accounts which he gleaned by his patient research. Much of the information that has come down to us about the lives of our great literary worthies is based upon these ac- counts. Icvara Chandra composed many songs for the Kavisongs. Kavi parties. In them we find the same ready wit and the sound realistic pictures of domestic life in Bengal, given with that remarkable fidelity which characterises his other writings. His poems are growing obsolete and the great popularity which they once enjoyed is now a thing Growin pe out ore of the past. The humour of our elders has lost Gare: much of the old flavour owing to the more fastidious taste that prevails now. Some of the witty say- ings once admired appear to us puerile and it is to be feared, that 50 years hence, I¢vara Chandra’s কুবের লইয়া যদি সেই সমূদয়। আমারে প্রদান STA ZEN AHA | ক্ষেপণ করিব দূরে প্রহারি চরণ। যদি পাই প্রণয়ের প্রথম চুম্বন ॥
