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is more famous for his Yoga philosophy than his poetry, which is of an average type. He is regarded as a saint.
No. 39. CHATURBHUJA MIŚRA, son of Ramakrishņa Misra, was a descendant of the great poet Kulapati. He wrote his book Alankāra-Ābhā for and under tho patronage of Mahārājā Balvanta Simha of Bharatpur in the Samvat year 1896 which is equal to 1839 A. D.
No. 40. CHATURDĀSA flourished in 1635 A. D. He was a disciple of one Santadāsa. He translated the 11th canto of Bhagavat Gitā in Hindi verse, which was noticed in the Search Report of 1900 (no. 7), S. R. 1901 no. 110 and S. R. 1906-08 (no. 149). His poetic merit is average.
No. 41. CHINTĀMANI wrote Gita Govindārtha Suchanikā for a R:ījā, Pahāra Simha in 1759 A. D. The free trauslation of Jayadeva's Gīta Govinda has been well executed by the poet.
No. 42. DĀDŪ flourished in 1544–1630 A. D. He is a well known author and founder of a religious sect, which goes by his name, as Dādūpantha. He like Kabīra and Nānaka and later on Prāṇanatha and others endeavoured to bring Hindus and Mulaminadans under a common bond of allegiance to the deity. It is said that Dādū was a Mochi or leather worker, but others call him a Brāhman. The principles inculculated by him go to make the theory that he was a nonBrāhunan like others of the same school montioned above. It required very great courage to rise above the trainmels of the time and entertaiu liberal views, which Dūdù preached, and to a strong man, the gates of Brahmanism wore open, witness the assimilation of Buddhism into Hinduism and that of Buddha as an incarnation of Hindu God. In Orissi . Buddism is still followeil under altered names. The inanuscript found styled Dādū Dayāla ki bāni contains his teachings and has been printed and published, as also his Šabda
