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THE MODERN LITERARY HISTORY OF HINDUSTAN. 
[8 564 . 
564. tlie bard Gokul Nath, of 
Banarsa. FI. cir.. 1820. 
Rag., Sun. He was son of the poet Raghu Nath (No. 559), of 
Banaras. His home was in the village of Chauragaw, which is in the 
Pahchakrosh or five-kos circle round Banaras. His Chet-Chandrika 
is a work of great authority amongst poets. He has described in it the 
family history of Raja Chet Siygh (FI. 1776, D. 1810) of Banaras, who 
was his patron. Another excellent work of his is the Gobind Sukhad 
Bihar . The Mahabharata (Rag.) was translated into the vernacular 
at the instance of Raja Udit Narayan (1795—1835), of Banaras, and 
in this work Gokul Nath, together with his son Gopi Nath (No. 565), 
and the latter’s pupil, Mani Deb (No. 566), had a principal share. The 
full name of the translation is the Mahabharat Dar’pan, and of its 
supplement the Haribans Dar'pan, published in Calcutta in 1829 
A.D. Garcin de Tassy (i, 158) says :—“ There are other Hindustani 
translations of the Mahabharata ; those with which I am acquainted 
are— 
(1) Kitab-i-Mahabharata, or book of the Mahabharata, of which 
a portion is contained in the Farzada Cieli collection. 
(2) The copy of which Sir E. Ouseley has also only a portion. 
(3) There is also among the manuscripts of Sir W. Ouseley a 
volume which contains a portion of the Mahabharata in Sanskrit and 
Hindustani. 
(4) Among the numbers of the Hindustani manuscripts of the 
Prince of Borgia described by Paulin de Saint Barthelemy there is a 
portion of the Mahabharata entitled Balak Puran, or the Legend of 
the Child (Krishna). The original manuscript is accompanied by an 
Italian translation by P. Marcus a Tomba. 
Besides the Persian translation of the Mahabharata attributed to 
Abu’I Fazl, minister of Ak’bar, there is another more recent one by 
Najib Khan ban ‘Abdu'l Latif, made at the command of, and in the 
palace of, Nawab Mahaldar Khan Naza in the year 1782-83 A.D. 
The translator says that it was made according to the verbal inter¬ 
pretation of the Sanskrit text given to him in Hindustani by many 
Brahmans. 
Among the Persian manuscripts of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 
is found a third Persian translation by the Hindu Bapas ” 
To these may be added (1) the Bijai Muktabali of the poet 
Chhattr 9 (No. 75), which is a condensed abstract of the Mahabharata ; 
