![]() ![]() The famous Bengali linguist Haraprasad Shastri discovered the palm leaf Charyapada manuscript in the Nepal Royal Court Library in 1907. These are mystic songs composed by various Buddhist seer-poets: Luipada, Kanhapada, Kukkuripada, Chatilpada, Bhusukupada, Kamlipada, Dhendhanpada, Shantipada, Shabarapada etc. The first works in Bengali, written in new Bengali, appeared between 10th and 12th centuries C.E. After the post- partition era, Bengali literature comprises literature of Bangladesh and of West Bengal. ![]() He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Rabindranath Tagore, poet, playwright, novelist, painter, essayist, musician, and social reformer, is the best known figure of Bengali literature to the world. Novels were introduced to Bengali literature in the mid-19th century. biographies of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu), and secular texts by Muslim poets (e.g. works of Syed Sultan and Abdul Hakim), translations of Sanskrit, Arabic and Persian texts, Vaishnava texts (e.g. Medieval Bengali literature consists of various poetic genres, including Hindu religious scriptures (e.g. ![]() Thereafter, the timeline of Bengali literature is divided into two periods − medieval (1360-1800) and modern (after 1800). The earliest extant work in Bengali literature is the Charyapada, a collection of Buddhist mystic songs dating back to the 10th and 11th centuries. Bengali literature ( Bengali : বাংলা সাহিত্য, Bangla Sahityô) denotes the body of writings in the Bengali language. ![]()
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