( lxxvi. ) which he made a large amount of money, But it was his son, Gokul Mitra, who by his commercial genius became the master of perhaps crores of rupees, a rupee then having many times its present purchasing value. In any other country, where the people know how to honour their Great, the name of Gokul Mitra might have been inscribed in letters of gold and hung in all public places as an example of industry, enterprise, probity, piety and unbounded charity. Anyhow, although Uttaram laid the foundation, Gokul Mitra is universally recognized as the founder of the family. Perhaps no rich man in Calcntta lavished more wealth on what was considered in those days to be good deeds than Gokul Mitra did. Perhaps no Bengali layman again gave so much to his religious preceptor as Gokul Mitra did, Besides presenting him with large sums of money and other costly gifts, he built a large temple for his household gods and gave him so much rentfree land that though it has now been partitioned among his forty descendants, these forty families still live upen their shares in great affluence and comfort. He bought the celebrated image of Madon Mohan from the Maharaja of Bisnupur paying him three lakhs of rupees and built a temple for it the tasteful and costly architecture of which has excited the admiration of all experts in Eindu art. A host of men were employed in the service of this deityworshippers to perform the daily service, florists to supply flowers and to string garlands, priests to
