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Ramai Pandit ((ベンガル語:রামাই পণ্ডিত) ''Ramai Ponđit'') or Ramai the Wise was a medieval Bengali poet from the region of Bengal. The exact date of his birth is not known, but it is believed that he was born in the later half of the 10th century〔P. 34 ''History of Bengali language and literature: (A series of lectures delivered as Reader to the Calcutta University)'' By Dinesh Chandra Sen (rai bahadur.), Dinesh Chandra Sen〕 and also lived in the 11th century AD, as he is a contemporary to Mayur Bhatt, the coart-poet of King Lausen.〔P. 19 ''The history of medieval Vaishnavism in Orissa'' By Prabhat Mukherjee〕 He is famous as the author of ''Shunya Purana'', the scripture of ''Dharma Puja Bidhan'', written in the 11th century AD.〔 American Sanskrit scholar Edward Washburn Hopkins wrote in his "Origin and Evolution of Religion" in 1923 that, :''Thus Ramai Pandit, who, in the Middle Ages, was an earthly expounder of the 19 great void I I doctrine (and was soon afterwards revered as a worker of miracles, a supernatural power), addresses this "form of the void," shunyamurti, as "sole lord of all the worlds " and begs it as " highest god" to confer boons. '' 〔(ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF RELIGION ), E. Washburn Hopkins, 1923, CHAPTER XIX THE BUDDHISTIC TRINITY.〕 ==Upbringing== According to the story, Ramai was the son of an unpopular Brahman sage; after his father's death, Ramai was Rama-kathai or Ramavataram Ramapala-charita.〔P. 313 ''A Dictionary of Indian Literature, Volume 1'' By Sujit Mukherjee〕 According to the traditional accounts preserved by the Bengali Dom caste, as well as Mayur Bhatta's narrative, Ramai Pandit was born to either an unpopular Brahmin family and after having lost his parents at an early age he was brought up by devotees of Dharma Thakur.〔P. 104 ''Journal of the Asiatic Society'' By Asiatic Society (Calcutta, India)〕 He was the priest of King Harishchandra.〔P. 95 ''A Dictionary of Indian Literature, Volume 1'' By Sujit Mukherjee〕 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「Ramai Pandit」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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