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VII. ] BENGALI LANGUAGE & LitekAVURE. 998 industry with Radha Kanta’s famous Cavda Kalpa Druma.”’ copy. 2. Cavda Sindhu—translation of the Amara The price of the book was Rs. 50 per Kosa in Bengali by Pitamvar Mukerjee of Uttar- para, 1909. 3. Rama Kisana’s vocabulary—English, Latin and Bengali, 1821. 4. Anglo Bengali Dictionary by Tara Chand (75,000 words). Price Rs. 6. 5. Dictionary by Jaya Gopala. 6. Do. by Laksmi Narayana. 7- Gavda Kalpa Tarangini by Jagannath Mallik. These three works, all published in 1838, give suitable Bengali substitutes for the Persian terms prevalent in courts. 8. Dictionary by Jaya Narayana Carma, (16,000 words), 1838, | g. Ratna Haldar’s Vangabhidhana (6224 words) 1839. ro. Anglo Bengali Dictionary by Radhanath De & Co. A vocabulary giving the meaning of words relating to Grammar, Heaven, Earth, the Body, Natural Objects, Apparel, Minerals, and Agriculture, 1850. 11. Parasikabhidhana or Persian and Bengali Dictionary by Jaya Gopala, 1840 ;—contains about 2500 Persian words arranged alphabetically with the Bengali meanings.