পদাবলী — রামপ্রসাদ সেন ও অন্যান্য প্রাচীন কবি

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Catalogue identifier: kali-0123
Alternate titles and import identifiers: KALI-0123; ramprasad_padabali_1877
Author or attribution: Ramprasad Sen and other Bengali poets, including Kamalakanta; published by Ramkanai Das
Record type: Book
Language: Bengali
Date / edition: 1877 (catalogued); Bengali year 1284
Source / repository: Ramkanai Das; printed at Sudhasindhu Press
Access: Open access
Subjects: Kali Library Research Catalogue; Bengali Kali Literature; Historical Accounts and Colonial Records; Hymns, Prayers, and Devotional Poetry

Description and curator notes

This nineteenth-century Bengali anthology preserves songs attributed to Ramprasad Sen together with pieces by other earlier poets. Its title page explicitly identifies it as a collected book with raga and ragini indications, rather than a volume written exclusively by Ramprasad. The table of contents separately lists Ramprasad, Kamalakanta and additional authors. It is valuable as an original-language source for the sung devotional world of Kali and the Mother, and as a comparison with the later English anthology Bengali Religious Lyrics, Śākta. The accessible scan contains 162 pages, including the printed title, contents, song texts and final material. The closing pages include smaller author sections and end with a song on Kashi followed by an explicit completion marker. Bengali Wikisource makes page images and a transcription available, but the transcription is marked unproofread and contains substantial OCR errors. Readers should therefore consult the scanned pages for quotations, Sanskrit-derived names, musical indications and textual comparison. Song attributions in a later collected edition are evidence of the printed tradition, not a guarantee that every attributed poem survives exactly as originally composed.

KALI-0123 — Kali Library Research Catalogue.
Access and reliability assessments below are supplied by the curator's 4–5 November 2026 research release, not a new independent verification.

Padābalī: Songs of Ramprasad Sen and Other Earlier Poets
Author / attribution: Ramprasad Sen and other Bengali poets, including Kamalakanta; published by Ramkanai Das
Publication: Ramkanai Das; printed at Sudhasindhu Press · 1877 (catalogued); Bengali year 1284
Calcutta: published by Ramkanai Das; printed at Sudhasindhu Press, 54 Balaram De Street, Jorasanko. Bengali year 1284, catalogued by Commons as 1877.
Format / language: Historical book / primary devotional or interpretive source · Bengali
Composition / textual history: Songs from earlier Bengali devotional traditions; the date above is this collected edition, not the composition date of every song.
Identifier: ramprasad_padabali_1877
Kali relevance: Bengali primary devotional poetry of Ramprasad, Kamalakanta and other poets associated with Mother worship; musical indications retained.
Context: This is a multi-author anthology despite the shortened file title. Do not attribute all its songs to Ramprasad or substitute the later English anthology for this Bengali text.
Subjects: Bengali Kali Literature; Historical Accounts and Colonial Records; Hymns, Prayers, and Devotional Poetry
Evidence / reliability: Historical primary scan. Wikisource transcription is unproofread and visibly corrupted; use page images for scholarly quotation.
Access / rights: Complete text checked 2026-11-04. 1877 historical edition and its underlying eighteenth-/nineteenth-century poetry are public domain; Commons hosts the scan. Wikisource transcription carries its stated reuse terms.

Source and alternate access links:
Read complete text: https://bn.wikisource.org/wiki/নির্ঘণ্ট:পদাবলী_-_রামপ্রসাদ_সেন.pdf
Alternate / related form: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:পদাবলী_-_রামপ্রসাদ_সেন.pdf

Source access

Read or locate the original source at Ramkanai Das; printed at Sudhasindhu Press

Rights and reading conditions

Complete text checked 2026-11-04. 1877 historical edition and its underlying eighteenth-/nineteenth-century poetry are public domain; Commons hosts the scan. Wikisource transcription carries its stated reuse terms. This library links to the source and does not reproduce its full text.

Citation

Ramprasad Sen and other Bengali poets, including Kamalakanta; published by Ramkanai Das. পদাবলী — রামপ্রসাদ সেন ও অন্যান্য প্রাচীন কবি. Ramkanai Das; printed at Sudhasindhu Press · 1877 (catalogued); Bengali year 1284.

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