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Maladhar Basu
Maladhar Basu was a Bengali poet from Kulingram in Burdwan who composed the Sri Krishna Vijaya, a Bengali version of parts of the Bhagavata Purana telling the life of Krishna, between 1473 and 1480. He wrote under the patronage of Sultan Rukunuddin Barbak Shah, who gave him the title Gunaraj Khan, and his work is among the earliest dated texts of Bengali literature.
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