The forms and variations of pronouns in Manik Dutta's poem Chandimangal/ মানিক দত্তের চণ্ডীমঙ্গল কাব্যে সর্বনাম পদের রূপ ও প্রয়োগবৈচিত্র

Abstract

Till now, the poet Manik Dutta of Malda is considered to be the ancient poet of Chandimangal. Sunil kumar Ojha collected the main part of this poetry from the notebooks written by the singers in 1784 and published it as a book. As a result, the poetry edited by Ojha also depicts the contemporary language of the singers. The said poem by Manik Dutta is very important in the judgment of Bengali linguistics. The poem creates a bridge between the middle-ages and the modern era of Bengali language. And the thing that attracts the most attention while analyzing the language of Manik Dutta's poem is the pronoun. The well-decorated, developed form of the pronoun in the Bengali language in the modern era seems to have its roots in Manik Dutta's poetry.