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Annada Mangal (Bengali:অন্নদামঙ্গল), orNutan Mangal (Bengali:নূতনমঙ্গল), is aBengalinarrative poem in three parts byBharatchandra Ray, written in 1752–53.[1] It eulogizesHindu goddessAnnapurna, a form ofParvati, worshipped inBengal. It is the only poem in the medievalMangalkavya tradition that does not create a separate subgenre, as no other poet ever ventured to praise Annapurna in their works.[2]
Annada Mangal is divided into three Books:Annada Mangal orAnnada Mahatmya,Bidya Sundar orKalika Mangal andMansingh orAnnapurna Mangal.[3]Annada Mangal orAnnada Mahatmya has three separate narratives. The first narrative describes the stories ofShiva andDakshayani, the birth of Parvati, the marriage of Shiva and Parvati, the founding ofVaranasi and Parvati's staying in Varanasi asAnnapurna.[3] The second narrative describeVyasa's attempt to found Vyasakashi and his subsequent failure while the third narrative describes the story of Hari Hor and Bhabananda Majumdar, the ancestors ofKrishna Chandra Roy, king ofNadia and Bharatchandra's patron.[3]Bidya Sundar, borrowed from the legend of Princess Bidya of Bardhaman and Prince Sundar of Kanchi, is a popular love story, which, in later years, was frequently adopted for stage.[3] This part belongs toKalika Mangal, a minor subgenre of Mangalkavya.Mansingh orAnnapurna Mangal is a historical narrative ofMansingh, Bhabananda Majumdar andPratapaditya of Jessore.[3]
The narratives are borrowed from variouspuranic text, chronicles and legends includingKashi Khanda Upapurana,[2]Markandeya Purana,[3]Bhagavat Purana,[3]Chaurapanchashika byBilhana,[3]Kshitishvangshavali Charitam[3] as well as popular hearsays. A lively use ofSanskrit metres and rhetoric is found in the poem.[1]
The surviving manuscripts of the text were dated from 1776 to 1829.[4]Annada Mangal was first published byGanga Kishore Bhattacharya in 1816.[4]Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar’s edition of the poem (1853) is now considered as the standard one.[4] Some of its older manuscripts are now preserved at theBritish Museum inLondon,Bibliothèque nationale de France inParis,Asiatic Society andVangiya Sahitya Parishad inKolkata.[4]
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