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1897.] M. V. Pandia— The Antiquity of the poet Nagarl Das. 
lotus. The drinking of nectar and sitting in the car of the gods is 
not pleasing to the heart of Nagara. When there is not H5ll in Svarga 
or Vaikuntha (heaven), then our getting the mere Thakurai (or chief- 
ship) there, would be of no use. 
(Ill) Babu Radha-krsna Das, in his ‘ Nagari-das-ji ka Jlwan 
Charitra,’ says :— 
(1) twtt tjsj % to imm 
twin; (ktshttott) awn 3 *msnj w 
% ftps $ i Page 5. 
i.e., The fourth ISTagari Das-jl, the hero of our work, was Maharaja 
Jasyant Simh-ji, kingof Krsnagarh (Rajputana) alias pri Hagari Das-ji. 
He was a disciple of Mahaprabhu Vallabhacarya’s sect. 
(2) *t«T % xrfw^TT SKST 5ft ffrai ^TT *TTW ‘ ’ 
% I W if<RT | p age p). 
i.e., The first of all his works, which has been found, is entitled the 
Vihara Candrika. It was composed in Samvat 1788. 
(3) cT^TpI ^tf^r eft ff eft 
fm **r w fr ^ % 
^iT *TWcT % 3TJPHT HTpT^ I Page 10. 
i.e., Even if we accept it to be the first work, then there is no 
doubt that his age at this time was not less than twenty years. Hence 
the year of his birth should be taken to have been about 1768. 
(4) trig Sr ‘ spr-wg-gsiggr ’ stsj ^tott fsra grr gmg 
ssg?: sr* i % rft|> gn grit nrf fnwt gfe 
% ’STJTHJT ggcf Ijg TTT^t eft 
gg €t rrrit i Page 22 . 
i.e.. He has composed his work, Vana-jana-pra^amsa in Magha of 
Samvat 1819, as we have stated above. And no work, composed after 
it, has yet been found. Thus, if we take his birth to have been in 
Samvat 1768 and his death in 1819, then it proves that he lived to an 
age of about 51 years. 
(5) <t?t % 5Nr & i $ k ) 
f%*H WW ^ 3ft 33 33HC I Page 16. 
* i.e., There (at Brindaban) he visited yri Bagke Bihari-ji, the god 
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