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- He is often considered as one of the greatest poets
prior to the arrival of Rabindranath Tagore.
- A contemporary to Michael Madhusudan Dutt, he is also
known for popularizing the epic narrative in the Bengali
language through his reinterpretations of the Mahabharata in
a three-volume epic: Raivatak (1887), Kuruksetra (1893) and
Prabhas (1896), where Krishna serves as the protagonist and
adventurer during the fall of kingdoms.
- He wrote biographies of Jesus, Buddha, and Cleopatra in
the Bengali language, and made verse translations of the
Bhagavad Gita and the Markandeya Purana.
- Bhanumati (his novel-in-verse) and "Prabaser
Patra" ( a memoir of his travels) also brought him
considerable fame.
- His five-volume autobiography, Amar Jiban (My Life), is
an important document chronicling the politics and social
aspirations of the Bengali literati in the late nineteenth
century.
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