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THE MODERN LITERARY HISTORY OF HINDtfSTlN. 
[§ 580 . 
Sun. An erotic poet, who attended the court of B&bu Deo hi 
Nandan, brother of the Maharaj of Ban dr as. Possibly the same as 
No. 677. 
580. TftHrei Gopal Chanclr' SahQ, alias Qiri 
Dhar Banar’sl, alias Gin Dhar Das. B. 1832 A.D. 
Sun. He was son of Kali Harakh Chanclr ' and father of the 
famous poet Harishchandr' (No. 581), of Banaras . His principal 
works are the Dasabatar and the Bharatl Bhukhan. The last is a 
commentary on the Bhakha Bhukhan (No. 377). Harishchandr' 
only died in the year 1885. Cf. Garcin de Tassy, i, 191. 
581. Babfi Harishchandr', of Banaras. Born 9th 
September 1850. 
Sun. The most celebrated of the native poets of the present 
day. He has done more for the popularisation of vernacular literature 
than almost any living Indian. He himself was a prolific author 
in many styles, and he excelled in all. He conducted for many 
years an excellent vernacular magazine entitled the Harishchandrika. 
He was son of Gopal Chandr' Sahu alias Girl Dhar Banar’sl (No. 580), 
who was a prolific author, but who died at the early age of 27, in the 
year 1859, leaving Harishchandra an orphan only 9 years old. The 
boy was educated at Queen’s College, Banaras, and commenced to write 
at an early age. In the year 1880, so greatly had his fame extended 
that he was given the title of B h drat end u, or Moon of India, by the 
unanimous consent of all the editors of the vernacular papers of India. 
He died in the year 1885, universally regretted, being by general con¬ 
sent one who was * ajata-gatru .’ He is best known (see also No. 706) 
for the Sundarl Tilak (quoted in this work as ‘Sun.’), published in 
1869 (Sam. 1926), which is an anthology of poems in the Sawaaya 
metre from the works of 69 poets. This work is by some said to 
have been compiled under his instructions by Purukhottam Sukal, 
and has been frequently printed. One of his latest works was a 
series of excellent lives of great men, European and Indian, entitled 
Prasiddh Mahatmao ka Jlban Charitr '. He was certainly the best 
critic which Northern India has as yet produced. A short account 
of his life is given in the Chandrast of Byas Bam Shaykar 
Sharm a, printed at the Hari Par’kas Press in Banaras in 1885, 
