Charyapada is the oldest known Bengali written form. It is actually poems. It was written on 9th century and Harprashad Sastri discovered in the Nepal Royal Court Library in 1907.Its a palm leaf manuscript. Charyapada language is referred to as Alo-Andhari (light and shadow means twilight language). The manuscript has 47 verses, written by different 23 poets, probably lived between the 9th and 11th centuries AD. And came from the various regions of Bengal, Orissa, Assam and Bihar. Some poets were Sarhapa, shabar pa, Luipa, Dombipa, Bhusukupa, kahnapa, Kukkuripa, Minapa, Aryadev, Dhendhanpa. As the poems written in an early form of Bangla they are difficult to understand. Charyapada provides a realistic picture of medieval Bengali society by describing different occupations of people such as hunters, boatmen, and potters. It also describes the some popular musical instruments such as kada-nakada, drums, and tom-toms. The custom of dowry was prevalent. Cows were common domestic animals and elephants were common as well. Girls used to wear peacock feathers, flower garlands, and earrings. This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... 1907 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Verse is a writing that uses meter as its primary organisational mode, as opposed to prose, which uses grammatical and discoursal units like sentences and paragraphs. ... Jump to: navigation, search Bengal, known as Bôngo (Bengali: বঙ্গ), Bangla (বাংলা), Bôngodesh (বঙ্গদেশ), or Bangladesh (বাংলাদেশ) in Bangla (Bengali), is a region in the northeast of South Asia. ... Jump to: navigation, search Orissa (2001 provisional pop. ... Assam (অসম) is a northeastern state of India with its capital at Dispur. ... Jump to: navigation, search Bihar ( बिहार in Devanagri) is a state of the Indian union situated in the eastern part of the country. ...