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The first works in Bengali, written in Old Bengali, appeared between 10th and 12th centuries C.E. The collection of these words is generally known as the Charyapada. There are as many as 50 to 51 songs. But we got only 46 and a tore one of them(23). These are mystic songs composed by various Buddhist seer-poets: Luipada, Kanhapada, Kukkuripada, Chatilpada, Bhusukupada, Kamlipada, Dhendhanpada, Shantipada, Shabarapada, Arcjhanpada, Bhadehpada, Dharmapada, Dhombipada, Mohidharpada, Khonkonpada, Binapada,Birupada, Thantrikpada etc. Among them Kanhapada composed highest number of songs,13. And the second position goes to Bhusukupada,8.We haven't got any songs composed by Thantrikpada. The first song is composed by Luipada. The famous Bengali linguist Haraprasad Shastri discovered the palm leaf Charyapada manuscript in the Nepal Royal Court Library in 1907.
There is no Dark Age in Bengali literature."Sekh Subhadaya" collection of poems on some Muslim Fakir's biography which was founded by Bangladesh.They think that those poems were written in the 12th century.
A torn manuscript of the Sreekrishna Kirtana Kabya was discovered by Basanta Ranjan Roy Biddyadwallav in 1909 from the house of Debendranath Chatterjee at a village named Kakinla in the district of Bankura, West Bengal. Shreekrishna Kirtana Kabya was composed by Boru Chandidas. It was first published under the composition made by Basontoh Ranjan Roy in 1916. While Charyapada shows us the most ancient example of Bengali language, Shreekrishna Kirtana depicts a new kind of speech style very clearly. Shreekrishna Kirtana have as many as 13 parts. It depicted the romantic relationship of Radha and Krishna. According to Suniti Kumar Chatterji, "The Grammar of the speech of the Shreekrishna Kirtana gives a clue to many of the forms of New Bengali".
The padas of Vidyapati—written in an early Bengali dialect that draws from Maithili—deeply influenced the medieval Bengali poets.
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