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 IV.] BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. 133 - the modifications introduced into older stories, at this time, in order toraise the Brahmins above the level even of the Gods. down the great dynasty of tie Yadavas and of টি Sagara—the distinguished king of the Lunar race. It is a Brahmin’s anger, again, which has placed a blot. on the Moon’s surface. Even the god of fire, Agni Deva, and the god of the sky, Indra Deva, have been subject in their turn to a Brahmanical curse. A Brahmin’s anger has made the waters of the great sea saline. Even the greatest of the gods, Visnu, bears the mark of a Brahmin’s kick on his bosom.” Kaciram Das describes the incident of the curse of a Brahmin, under which Raja Pariksit was to die of snake-bite within a week. The snake had not yet appeared at the fixed hour. The Raja grew restless, and when a worm was found in a fruit presented to him, he cried out, ‘Let this worm become a snake and bite me, rather than that a Brahihin’s word should prove untrue.’’*+ There 1s ধার ক্রোধে নষ্ট হৈল সগরের বংশ ॥ ধার ক্রোধে কলঙ্কী হইল কলানিধি। ধার ক্রোধে লবণ হইল সলিলধি ॥ UI CHICA BAA VA HASH | ধার পদচিভু ধরে নারায়ণবন্ষ ॥'' Kacidas’s Mahabharata. + < GB CATS] SRS STS G24 | দ্ংশুক আমারে রহুক ব্রাঙ্গণবচন |. 20,
 * “ Tt is a Brahmin’s anger which, like fire, burnt Fables
 * ধার ক্রোধে যছ্ুকুল Zea fA ৷
 * Kacidas’s Mahabharata.