Isvar Chandra had returned to Calcutta and taken over the charge of his usual domestic duties. But being still too weak, his younger brother, Dinabandhu, helped him now and then. One evening, Dinabandhu having gone out to market, did not return till ten O'clock in the night. Isvar Chandra was greatly anxious for his brother, and began to search for him from one bazar to the other. At last, he was found sleeping in the veranda of a small shop in Nutanbazar. The elder brother gently awoke him, and brought him back. It is said, that Dinabandhu was never afterwards allowed to go out by himself.
After finishing the Rhetoric course, Isvar Chandra entered the Smriti (Law) class in the year 1837. The general practice, at that time, was that students had to pass through the Philosophy and Vedanta classes before they could be admitted into the Smriti class. But Isvar Chandra resolved to study Smriti first, for he had a great mind to pass the Law committee examination and become a Judge-Pandit,[1] and unless one passed this exa-
- ↑ Before the foundation of the Calcutta University, one intending to be a pleader of the Sudder Court (the present High Court) had to pass an examination conducted by the Law Committee, which was then under the Sudder Court. The Law Committee is not yet wholly extinct, its present functions being to conduct the Pleadership and Mukteraship examinations. Since 1857, when the University came into existence, it was ruled that the would-be pleaders
