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 V.] BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. 449 “ quiet and unassuming appearance. She is always making enquiries about her son. Visnupriya Devi is the wife of our Lord, and is always busy in ministering to his comforts. Humble in spirit, of a shy and retiring nature, she speaks very gently.” No meat, no fish could enter their home, as indeed is the case in all true Vaisnava families. All food prepared in the house was first offered to Krisna, and then the inmates of the house partook of it as prasad. Various kinds of vegetables and preparations of milk were used in Chaitanya Deva’s house, and Govinda Das relished them exceedingly. He writes* :— ‘There were sweet vegetable-roots, _ fruits, He relishes thickened milk, butter, cream and excellent pre- the as meal, parations of herbs, vegetable soup, gruel, puddings and various sorts of sweetmeats. Cachi Devi cooks delicious food which is first offered to Krisna and then distributed amongst the members of the household. I, the prince of gluttons, became a willing servant in the house.”’ কত ফল মূল ছান৷ ননী সর ক্ষীরে॥ শাক সপ দধি মুক্তা মোদক পায়স। বড়া লাড্ড, মিষ্টকাদি খাইতে সুরস ॥ প্রতি দিন শচী মাতা করেন রন্ধন । আনন্দে করেন সবে প্রসাদ ভোজন ॥ পেটুকের শিরোমণি মুই হই দাস, দয়াল গ্রভূর পাত্রে খাই বার মাস ॥
 * প্রতিদিন ভোগ হয় বিষুর মন্দিরে ।
 * Kadcha.

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