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Y. S'astri—Kap section of Barendra Brahmans. 
[No. 2, 
born in the liouse of Nandanabashi. It is needless to mention tbe 
names of 84 bouses of tbe Kastagrotriyas as they have no connection 
with the present topic. 
There are different accounts as to bow, after Ballala Sena, tbe Kap 
section was originated from tbe Kulin mentioned before. Among them 
tbe most popular is tbe following :— 
Once upon a time many Brahmans of tbe Kulin and tbe Qrotriya sec¬ 
tions were invited to a dinner given by fukadeva Acharya, an inhabi¬ 
tant of tbe village named Bralimanbala, on the occasion of bis father’s 
annual (Jraddha ceremony. There was a prevailing custom in that time* 
which still exists, that the dinner should not begin until all tbe Brah¬ 
mans were present, especially when a respectable man was absent. But 
in that dinner this custom was not observed, as tbe dinner began with¬ 
out waiting for one Nrisinha Laurial, 1 of f antipore, who was formerly an 
inhabitant of tbe village named Laur, in Qrikatta (Sylbet), and who, it is 
said, though a Brahman, used to live by selling betel-leaves. He did not 
come in proper time. Afterwards when Nrisinha came he wanted to 
know the cause of the violation of the custom. In reply he was told 
that as he was not a respectable man so none could find any necessity 
to wait for him. At this reply, Nrisinha felt himself much insulted and 
determined to raise his status in the society. He accordingly came 
home and started for Majgram, a village on the river Atrai in the dis¬ 
trict of Bajshahi, with a view to get his daughter married to Madhu 
Kulluka Bhatta was an inhabitant of the village named Gucikhara, formerly in 
the district of Bajshahi but now in the Pabna district. Sir W. Jones praised him 
in the following words : “ At length appeared Kulluka Bhatta, a Brahman of Ben¬ 
gal, who after a painful course of study, and the collation of numerous manuscripts, 
produced a work, of which it may, perhaps be said very truly, that it is the shortest 
yet the most luminous, the least ostentatious yet the most learned, the deepest yet 
the most agreeable commentary ever composed on any author, ancient or modern, 
European or Asiatic.” 
1 The well-known Advaita Acharya, a friend and disciple of G-auranga, was the 
great great-grandson of this Nrisinha Laurial. Nrisinha’s son was Yidyadhara j his 
son Chakari; his son Kuvera Acharya; his son Advaita Acharya. 
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