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VII. ] BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. 891 quote an extract from Rajiva Lochana’s Krigna Chandra Charita. Raja Krishna Chandra of Nava- dvipa, an account of whom we gave in a foregoing chapter, is the subject of this memoir. The Raja, called by the Rev. J. Long ‘The Augustas of the East’ was a great friend of the English, and had been chiefly instrumental in persuading Mirzafar and other leading men of Bengal to form a secret alliance with them on the eve of the memorable battle of Plassey. The extract refers to the defeat of Sirajuddaulla, his destitution and miserable end.

  • “The English next came to the field of Plassey

and began to fight. The soldiers of the Nawab saw that their great generals were fighting in a half-hearted manner and that the volley of fire opened on them by the English was killing hun- dreds of them. In deep dismay many died fight- ing desperately. Mohana Das, a general of the Nawab saw that the fighting was not conducted as it should be, and informed the Nawab that some of _- his generals had conspired against him and were trying to bring ruin upon him. The Nawab wonder- ingly asked how that could be? Mohana Das

  • «পরে ইঙ্গরাজের aeaels টসন্য পলাসীর বাগানে

উপনীত হইয়া সমর আরন্ত করিল। নবাবী ঠৈন্য সকল দেখিল যে প্রধান ২ সৈনোরা মনোযোগ করিয়া যুদ্ধ করে না এবং ইঙ্গরাজের অগ্রিবৃষ্টিতে শত শত লোক প্রাণত্যাগ কৰবিতেছে। fe করিব ইহাতে কেহ উন্মা! ক্রমে যুদ্ধ করিয়া প্রাণত্যাগ করিতেছে । যুদ্ধ ভাল হইতেছে না ইহ দেখিয়া নৰাবের চাকর মোহন দাস নাষে এক জন সে নবাব সাহেবকে কহিলেক আপনি কি করেন আপনার চাকরের! পরামর্শ করিয়া মহাশয়কে নষ্ট করিতে বসিয়াছে। নবাব কহিলেন সে কেমন। মোহন Krisna- Chandra Charita,