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Kashiram Das (কাশীরাম দাস, born 16th century) is an important poet in medieval Bengali literature. His Bengali re-telling of the ''Mahabharata'', known as ''Kashidasi Mahabharat'', is a popular and influential version of the ''Mahabharata'' legend in Bengal. Although the entire work is intra-textually ascribed to him, most scholars agree that he composed only the first four of the eighteen books (''parvas''). As with the ''Ramayana'' of Krittibas Ojha, Kashiram freely removed elements and added other legends to the story. ''Das'' is not a last name, but a title meaning "servant" in the Vaishnava tradition; the name is also written as Kashiramdas.〔Kashiramdas, article by Sukhamay Mukherjee in the Encyclopedia of Indian Literature, Sahitya Akademi, v.III p. 2003〕 ==Life== Kashiram Das was born to a Vaishnava Kayastha family in the village of Singi, adjacent to Katwa in Bardhaman district; his death anniversary is still observed in the region. Kashiram was the second son of Kamalakanta Das;〔Kalipada Chaudhuri, ''bangla sahityer itihas'' (in Bengali, বাংলা সাহিত্যের ইতিহাস), bani samsad, p.121-122 〕 two of his brothers were noted poets on their own, in the Vaishnava Padavali tradition. His elder brother Ghanashyam Das, is the author of ''Srikrishnavilas'', and his younger brother, Gadadhar, composed ''Jagannathamangal''. Although Kashiram's topic was outside the mainstream Krishna legend, his work is stylistically in the same tradition, and uses the ''payar chhanda'' (payar metre). There is some doubt regarding his birthplace. It appears that Kamalakanta left the Bardhaman area (at the time known as Indrani Pargana) and had settled in Orissa, so it might be that Kashiram was born in Orissa〔Sukhamay Mukherjee, ''madhyajuger bangla sahityer tathya o kalakrama'', 1974〕 and then returned to Bengal (Midnapore) at a later stage. As a Sanskrit and Vaishnava scholar, Kashiram was patronized by a zamindar family in Midnapore, and ran a ''pathshala'' (small school) there. In addition to the ''Kashidasi Mahabharat'', he is cited to have composed several works, including ''Satyanarayaner Punthi'' (the book of Satyanaryan), ''Svapna-Parba'' (dream reverie), and ''Nalopakhyan'' (tale of Nala), which are now lost. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kashiram Das」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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