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(२७५) and the adjacent buildings. SHAH JAHAN set the poet at liberty, and desired him to solioit some favour as a reparation for the indignity he had suffered : TULSI DAS, accordingly, requested him to quit ancient Delhi, which was the abode of Rama, and in compliance with his request the emperor left it, and founded the new city, thence named SHAH JEHANABAD. After this, TULSI DAS went to BRINDABAN, where he had an interview with NABHA JI : he settled there, and strenuously advocated the worship of SITA RAMA, in preference to that of RADHA KRISHNA. Besides these legendary tales of this cele- brated writer, . whose works exercise more in- fluence upon the great body of Hindu popula- tion than the whole voluminous series of Sanskrit composition, we have other notices of him collected from his own works, or preser- ved by tradition, that differ in some respects from tho above. From these it appears that TULSI DAS was a Brahman of the SAR- VARYA branch, and a native of HAJIPUR, near CHITRAKUTA; when arrived at matu. rity, he settled at BENARES, and held the