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 4 = “a IV. ]. BENGALI LANGUAGE '& LITERATURE. কও and then enters the next, even as does the village- priest, receiving presents from one house, imme- diately turn to visit the neighbour's.” The domestic life of Bengal.so dominated his imagination, that even looking at the gay flower with the bee upon it, tre poet is reminded of the Brahmin: priest ! Mr. Cowell justly remarks ‘‘Wher- ever he may place his scenes, in Civa’s heaven or India or Ceylon,-Mukundaram never loses sight of Bengal. He carries everywhere the village life of his own early days.” In a few touches he often calls up a picture or a scene which seems to throb with life. Kalaketu the hunter, when a boy, is introduced to us by the poet in the following passage :— + ‘His mouth, eyes, ears and nose were as fine __Kalaketu as if they had been carved by a chisel, and his arms 858 boy- were as strong as iron-bars. ~ On his forehead he wore an ornament called Kapaltati. A tiger’s claw hung on his breast. He used to besmear his body with the red dust of the play-ground. Amongst the children he looked like their chief. One who attempted to wrestle with him was treated to a hundred blows,—in fact, it soon became a question ard Bla AT SACHA | এক ঘরে পেয়ে মান, গ্রামযাজি দ্বিজ যান + নাক মুখ চক্ষু কাণ, _ কুন্দে যেন নিরমান ছুই বাহু লোহার সাবল। রর * 2 রি + 4
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