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 34 nail on the head. -For this purpose he coins new sayings’ and adages which, while they “are entirely original, wonderfully appeal to latent but powerful sentiments of native life and, like several of Shakespeare's expressions, have acquired a popular currency in the vernacular.

His first Guru, or religious preceptor, was the then heard of the Vallabhdcharya sect. Akho finds, to use hisown words, that, in having accepted him for his Guru, he has yoked av old bullock to his cart—a bul- lock that is a charge on his purse but cannot carry the cart on the way to salvation. Heisto Akho a wrong Guru who is fixed to a stone and wants to swim. Such a Guruis like the child—wife who becomes a mother at a very tender age and the development of whose body is pre- maturely checked by. her early child-bed—a simile which may possess historical interest for our modern social reformers. Akho has a word to say against the general idea of his people that the touch of a low-caste man car- ries pollution with it. Pollution, he says, is daughter to the low-caste man and is wedded to the foolish hus- bands, the Brahmans and the Vaishnavas—fools who, when they fancy they are polluted, bathe their external skins and can neither see nor cleanse their internal gelves. They have a high idea of themselves and take sweet Mowra flowers for real grape. They are like the blind woman who tries and tries, and tries to spread her bedding until she finds that the night is over. Akho