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 IV. ] BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. 350 rich man’s table; the deer-skin worn by _ poor people and the sky-coloured sadi of gauze of the high born lady ; the ha-du-du-du, and other manly sports of country people, and the rich men’s games of chess and dice, together with the theatricals of the period 10 which scenes from Krisna’s life were played. But through all descriptions runs that devotional feeling for Chandi which hallows every situation in life, and testifies to the spiritual awakening of Bengal in those days. This last খনন gives a more than poetic interest in our eyes to the celebrated work of Mukundarama. Though our author describes every phase of Bengali life, he is particularly successful in delineating the miseries of rustic people. Through all the romance of situations that he creates, there rises a sound of woe —a deep pathetic tone and a murmur of grief and wailing, and a gloomy effect is left on the mind of the reader, hightened by the provincialisms of the style of the poems, reminding him of the hfe of the poorin Bengali villages. The redeem- ing feature of it, as I have said, is the feeling of absolute resignation to the deity, which pervades the poem investing every episode of it with sweet- ness. ৪001 4৯06৮৮01016. ৮৮116০7১267 Mukundarama, com- Oth er posed poems on Chandi; we give a brief notice of | poems on them below :— Chandi. 10. Bhabanigankara, a Kayastha whose ancestor : re Bhabani Nara Das left Radadeca (western Bengal) on Gankara. account of poverty and settled at Chakracala in Chittagong. Bhabanicankara wrote his poem about