No work on the Sanskrit literature of Bengal (West Bengal and Bangladesh taken
together) has as yet been published in English. The result is that the
non-Bengali elites and the foreign indologists know very little about it beyond
excepting what is written in stray articles published in different journals
particularly in the English works on the history of Bengal. So, a sustained
account of the Sanskrit literature, produced in Bengal, is a desideratum.
The cultural heritage of Bengal represented in the Sanskrit works is vast,
varied and valuable. There is hardly any branch of Sanskrit literature, to which
Bengal did not make substantial contribution. What is