Kashiram : Kāshiram Das 16th century Bengali poet; his rendering of Mahabharata# & Krittibas’ Ramayana$ influence the cultural life of Bengal.
... transferring into the popular speech the whole central story of the Mahabharata or certain of its episodes and, still more universally, the story of the Ramayana. In Bengal there is the Mahabharata of Kashiram, the gist of the old epic simply retold in a lucid classical style, and the Ramayana of Krittibas, more near to the vigour of the soil, neither of them attaining to the epic manner but still written ...
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