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14. Wft Bhago Das. FL 1420 A.D. 
One of Kablr’s immediate disciples, and author or compiler of the 
shorter Bijah. See Wilson, Religious Sects of the Hindus , i, 7 9 ; 
Garcin de Tassy, i, 118. 
15. *?3Tr Srut Gopal. FL 1420 A.D. 
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Another of Kabir’s immediate disciples, and author of the Sukh 
Nidhan. See Wilson as above, page 90. 
16. the poet Kamal, of Bandras . FI. 1450 
A.D. 
Haj., Rag. He was Kablr’s son. He spent his time making 
couplets in refutation of his father’s sayings. Hence the proverb 
% ft? WIT ^cr 3\?TT^r,—An unlucky family was Kablr’s, in 
which the son Kamal was born. See Fallon’s Hd. Dy. s.v. Upaj’nd, 
page 13. 
17. 3T<3TU-> Bidydpati Thahur, of Bisapl, in 
Dar’bhayga district. FI. 1400 A.D. 
Rag. Retracing our steps, and leaving for a time the Central 
Hindustan, made famous by Ramanand and Kablr, we find flourishing 
in the year 1400 one of the most famous of the Vaishnava poets of 
Eastern India. Bidydpati Thahur was founder of the school of master- 
singers, which in after years spread over the whole of Bag gal, and his 
name is to the present day a household word from the Kar’m’nasa to 
Calcutta. He has been translated into and imitated in most of the 
dialects falling between these limits. Little is known of his life. 
He was the son of Gan’pati Thahur, who was the son of Jai Datt’ 
Thahur. The founder of the family was l/isnu Carman, who lived 
seven generations before Bidydpati in the village of Bisapl, the 
modern Bis’phi. This village was given to the poet as a rentfree gift 
by king Sib Siygh (then heir apparent) of Sugaona in the year 1400 
A.D. The deed of endowment is still extant. Bidydpati was author 
of many Sanskrit works, the principal of which are the well-known 
Purusa Parihsa, the Durgabhahti Taraygini, the Danaudhyauali, the 
Vi cad a Sara, and the Gaya Pattana ; but his chief glory consists 
in his matchless sonnets ( pcida) in the Maithili dialect dealing 
