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THE MODERN LITERARY HISTORY OF HINDtJSTlN. 
[§ 634. 
Sriijg. In the above year he wrote a well-known and much-admired 
Nakh’sikh (see note to No. 87), entitled Ras Rahasya. (Printed by 
Ram Din Siygh, Khadga Bilas Press, Baykipur.) 
634. Bakh’tawar, of Hath’ras, district Aligarh. 
FI. 1817 A.D. 
A religious mendicant, author of an atheistical work in Hindi 
verse, entitled Sunisar, the essence of emptiness, the purport of which 
is to show that all notions of man and God are fallacies, and that 
nothing is. His patron was Day a Ram, Baja of Hath 9 ras, when that 
fortress was destroyed by the Marquis of Hastings. See Wilson, 
Religious Sects of the Hindus , i, 360, andGarcin de Tassy, i, 102. 
635. ^FqffT Da I'pati Ray, of Am’dabad. B. (? FI.) 
1828 A.D. 
In conjunction with another Brahman named Bans1 Dhar Sri 
Mall (No. 636) he wrote an excellent commentary on the Bhakha 
Bhukhan (No. 377). 
636. Bansi Dhar Sri Mall, of Am’da- 
bad. B. (? FI.) 1828 A.D. 
In conjunction with another Brahman named Dal’pati Ray 
(No. 635) he wrote an excellent commentary on the Bhakha 
Bhukhan (No. 376). 
637. Ijf'f qjfT, the poet Gur Din Pare. B. (? FI.) 
183k A.D. 
He wrote an important work, entitled the Bak Man dhar Ply gal 
(written 1803 A.D.), which treats not only of prosody, but of 
rhetoric, the six seasons, Nakh’sikh (see note to No. 87), and composition. 
638. ^3, Krish’nanand Bycis Deb. 
FI. 1842 A.D. 
He is best known for his Rag-Sagarodbhab Rag-Kalpadrum (quoted 
in this work as ‘Bag.’), which is an anthology of selections from the 
works of more than two hundred poets who were followers of Krisna. 
