মংবাদ পত্রে মেকালের কথা ہت سیBt মৌলিক প্রধান। সেই বংশে মহাতেজ রাজকৃষ্ণ মহারাজা নবকুল করিল বর্ণন । মৌলিকাদি ক্রিয়া যত পূৰ্ব্ব নব্য নীতিমত কুলপ্রদীপ গ্রন্থ বিবরণ। রাজকৃষ্ণ সম শ্রেষ্ঠ ভুবনে নাহিক দৃষ্ট কুল নিষ্ঠ শিষ্ট মিষ্ট ভাষ । বাড়ক অতুল ঋদ্ধি পুত্র পৌত্র বংশ বৃদ্ধি ঘটকেন্দ্র মণি অভিলাষ । সুগন্ধ্য আলয় যার কুলাচাৰ্য্য সুবিচার সাৰ্ব্বভৌম বংশে বংশধর । কুলাচাৰ্য্য আৰ্য্য ধাৰ্য্য সম্বন্ধ BBB BB BBBB BB BBBB S BBBBB BB BBBB BBBBBB BB BBBB DB নমস্কার । কুলপ্রদীপ সাঙ্গ করি পূর্ব নব্যমত ধরি আংশিক ঘটক সুবিচার । রাধাকান্ত দেবের লাইব্রেরি ও ইম্পিরিয়াল লাইব্রেরিতে এই পুস্তিক আছে । পৃ. ৬০—বারএয়ারি পূজা। বারএয়ারি পূজার উৎপত্তি সম্বন্ধে স্ত্রীরামপুরের মাসিক ‘ফ্রেণ্ড অব ইণ্ডিয়া’ ১৮২০ সনের মে মাসে এইরূপ লেখেন :–
- 避 峻 总镑 丐 a new species of Pooja which has been introduced into Bengal within the last thirty years, called Barowaree,... . . . . About thirty years ago, at Goopti-para near Santi-poora, a town celebrated in Bengal for its numerous Colleges, a number of brahmuns formed an association for the celebration of a pooja independently of the rules of the Shastras. They elected twelve men as a committee, from which circumstance it takes its name, and solicited subscriptions in all the surrounding villages. Finding their collections inadequate, they sent men into various parts of the country to obtain further supplies of money, of whom many, according to current report, have never returned. Having thus obtained about 7000 Rupees, they celebrated the worship of Juguddhatree for seven days with such splendor, as to attract the rich from a distance of more than a hundred miles. The formulas of worship were of course regulated by the established practice of the Hindoo ritual, but beyond this, the whole was formed on a plan not recognized by the Shastras. They obtained the most excellent singers to be found in Bengal, entertained every brahmun who arrived, and spent the week in all the intoxication of festivity and enjoyment. On the successful termination of the scheme, they determined to render the pooja annual, and it has since been celebrated with undeviating regularity.
A way having been thus opened for the gratification of the senses, in addition to those regular festivals which their books enjoin, the example was imitated in other parts of Bengal. . . . . . . . . "Within a few miles of the metropolis, more than ten of these subscription assemblies are annually formed. The most renowned are those at Bulubh-poora, Kon-nugura, v, Ooloo, Goopti-para, Chugda, and Shree-poora. At Ooloo, where it ia celebrated with extraordinary shew, patres eonseripti of the town have passed a law that any man who on these occasions refuses to entertain guêsis, shall be considered infamous and expelled from society...... (“On the present celebration of the Hindoo Poojas,” pp. 129-30.)
