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 160 BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. [Chap. } of the words, makes the description attractive in Bengali. What may strike a foreigner as some- what grotesque, is to us excusable, or even elegant, because the similes are classical and convention- ally correct, in accordance with the highest taste of a former period. A Stereo- *« Her eyes reprove the bird Khafijana in their typed des- cription of beauty. the God of Love, bent to aim the arrows of her side-long glances. The beak of an eagle would be playfulness. Her eye-brows are like the bow of no match for her beautiful nose. The crimson hue of her lips reminds one of the Vanduli flower. Her teeth are like pearls, and her smile like a flash of lightning, which dispels the darkness. By it she sheds ambrosia all around. Her waist is slender like the lion’s, and her motion slow and graceful as a swan’s.”’ The If classical figures occasionally overloaded ver- translators enrich our nacular poetry, the efforts of the translators, how- lan ° ৬. রা ever, did immense service towards the development Sanskrit. of our language, by gradually enriching it witha supply of choice expressions from Sanskrit. Our থগ্জন গঞ্জন নয়ন চাহে ॥ মদন ধনুক ভূরু বিভঙ্গে। অপাঙ্গ ইঙ্গিতে বাণ তরম্ে ॥ নাসা খগপতি নহে সমতুল । স্থুরঙ্গ অধর বীধুলি ফুল ॥ দ্রশন মুকুতা বিজলী হাসি। অমিয় বরিষে আধার নাশি ॥ হরি * * কটি নিতম্ব। বাজ হংসজিনি গতি বিলম্ব ॥ Algol.
 * সুন্দর কামিনী কাম বিমোহে।