We have received generous help. Dr. Brajendra- nath Seal discussed with us many of these songs, both in letters and conversation. Dr. Dineshchandra Sen has given valuable information. Professors Pramodekumar Banerji and Ramsaran Ghosh, our colleagues at the Wesleyan College, Bankura, and Babu Sasibhusan Ghosh, have gone over the original and notes with us. Babu Juanendranath Sen has given permission to use four Agamani songs by his father, the late Rajanikanta Sen.
Ramprasad's songs are the great bulk of this selec- tion. His eminence makes this right, especially as his songs are constantly imitated by other poets. But, if the Sakta literature of Bengal is to be appreciated, a fuller selection is needed than we bave space for. Bengali scholars must first collect and edit this scattered literature; till this is done, our selection may serve a purpose.
Orthography proves a more difficult question every year. Such words as Brahman and svadest may be taken as now anglicised into Brahmin and swadeshi. The Sanskrit orthography misrepresents Bengali, but is a convenience to scholars. We have given it on the first occurrence of a Bengali word. But we have non- conformed in the spelling of some Bengali places and of Ramprasad. If the poet is Ramprasad to the fifty millions of his compatriots, and if Ravindranatha Thakura is allowed to call himself Rabindranath, not only in Bengali but in English, we think Ramprasad Sen should be saved from becoming Ramaprasada Sena. Titles of poems are our own.
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