Are these paraphrases?
Although neither Chandidas nor Maladhar Basu Vaishnavas were , they should lay the foundation for much of the following Vaishnava poetry in Bengal .
Although neither Maladhar Basu nor Chandidas were Vaishnavas , they were to lay the foundation for much of the following Vaishnava poetry in Bengal .

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