Kapalkundala also known as Mrinmoyee, is a Bengali romance novel by Bangladeshi writer Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay. 1] Published in 1866, 1] it is a story of a forest-dwelling girl named Kapalkundala, who fell in love and got married to Nabakumar, a young gentleman from Saptagram, but eventually found that she is unable to adjust herself with the city life. Kapalkundala is considered as one of the finest and the most popular of Chattopadhyay's novels. It has been translated into English, German, Hindi, Gujrati, Tamil, Telugu and Sanskrit