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Chandidas

Chandidas is the name borne by more than a thousand Bengali songs; philologists distinguish behind it several poets, among them Baru Chandidas, the author of this poem, and others who sign Dvija or Dina Chandidas in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century collections. Baru Chandidas is said to have been a Brahmin born in the fourteenth century at Nanoor, in the present district of Birbhum, in West Bengal; Basantaranjan Ray placed his life from 1339 to 1399, while other scholars date him differently. A famous line is attributed to him: above all is the truth of man, and nothing above it.

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