Q. Name a book that Alaol wrote–
Answer: Padmabat
Notes: The name of Alaol, an inhabitant of Faridpur district of Eastern Bengal (now Bangladesh), in the seventeenth century is very important in this field. His best work is 'Padmabat’, which was written in 1651 at the request of Magan Thakur, a minister of Arakan Raj. It is the Bengali adoption of ‘Padmabat’ of the Awadhi poet, Malik Muhammad Jayasi