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In Praise Of Annada, Bharatchandra Ray’s Long Narrativepoem Dedicated To The Glory Of Annada, Translated Here IntoEnglish For The First Time, Is A Major Achievement And Atreasure Of Bengali Literature. This Volume Describes Theorigins Of The Goddess, The Building Of Her City And Temple,and The Spread Of Her Worship.In 1752, The Bengali Poet Bharatchandra Ray Completed Along Narrative Poem Dedicated To The Glory Of Annada, Shiva’sconsort And The Divinity Who, As Her Name Proclaims,“bestows The Bounty Of Rice.”A Poet Well Versed In Sanskrit, Persian And Hindi―all Ofwhich Enrich His Work―Bharatchandra Took Up The Literaryperformance Genre Maṅgalkāvya And Thoroughlytransformed It, Addressing... Read More