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Hindustani version, and of a philosophical work entitled Gy an Samudra. 
Garcin de Tassy (i, 482) suggests that he may also have been the 
author of a work entitled Sundar Bidya . 
143. fTWrfsr Chintamani Trip at hi, of 
Tik’mapur, district Kanh’pur. FI. 1650 A.D. 
Nir., Sat. He is counted as one of the great masters of vernacular 
composition (^TTpfc?!). The legend in the Doab is that his father used 
continually to visit a shrine of Devi and worship her. The shrine is 
still shown at a distance of a mile from Tik’mapur. One day the 
goddess, being pleased at his devotion, appeared to him, and showing 
him four skulls promised that they should all be born as sons to him. 
As a matter of fact so it turned out, and he obtained four sons, viz. 
(1) Ghintamani, (2) Bhukhan, (3) Mati Ram, and (4) data Saykar alias 
Nit Kanih. Of these, the last obtained the blessing of a saint and 
became a poet. The other three studied Sanskrit and became so learned 
that it is said that their fame will remain to the end of the world. 
From Mati Ham were descended Sltal and Bihar1 Lai, who were 
alive in 1844 A.D., and Ram Din. Chintamani attended for a long 
time the court of Bhomala Makarand Shah, of the solar race at 
Nag 1 pur. Under his name he composed an important treatise on 
prosody entitled Chhand-bichdr. He also wrote the (2) Kabya-bibek, 
(3) Kabi-kul Ka!pa-tar u, (4) Kabya-par’kas, and (5) a Ram ay an. 
The last is an excellent work in Kabitta and other metres. Amongst 
his patrons were Rudr’ Sahi, the Sulayki, the emperor Shah Jahan 
(1628—1658), and Jain Din Ah’mad (No. 144). He often wrote 
under the nom de guerre of Mam Lai. He is possibly the same as 
another Ghintamani, also mentioned by Sib Siggh. 
144. Jam Din Ah’mad. B. 1679 (P) A.D. 
He was a poet himself, and also a great patron of poets. Amongst 
his proteges may be mentioned Chintamani Tripathi (No. 143), of 
Tik’mapur. 
145. *1 lot) Bhuhhan Tripathi, of Tih’mapur, district 
Kanh’pur. FI. 1660 A.D. 
Nir., Haj., Rag. He was brother of Chintamani Tripathi (No. 143), 
and excelled in the tragic, heroic, and terrible styles. At first he 
