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 5604 BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. [ Chap. great Vaishnava masters. Pada Chintamani though a very small collection is a singularly fine one containing 351 padas. The only defect of this work lies in the anxiety of the compiler to select padas which please the ear in preference to those which appeal to the heart. The Padakalpataru is a collection of 3,101 padas and is divided into four CGakhas or Chapters. The first chapter contains 11 fal/avas or sub- chapters. The number of fadas in them Is 265. The second chapter has 24 pad/avas with 351 padas. The third has 31 pa//avas with 965 padas and the fourth chapter 36 pa//avas and with 1520 padas. The A classi- classification is made in the order in which emo- fication of : ; এ the finer tions grow and develop in the heart. The subtlety emotions. .,d fineness of this classification will interest the student of Psychology. Though the compiler has followed the rules of rhetoric in the classification of the songs, the songs themselves are not directed by rhetoric, but come from the heart of the poets direct and appeal to the heart of the readers. In the preliminary account given by Vaishnava Das in his Padakalpataru we find the following lines :— টু ১ dine of ৮ ০৫৪ In the line ot Crinivas Acharyya was born সপ টি পরখ ক নে Das’s Radha Mohana Thakur. Who can describe the noble account of চা র himself. qualities that he possessed. He was a second কে করিতে পারে তার গুণের বর্ণণ | যাহার বিগ্রহে গৌর প্রেমের নিবাস। হেন শ্রীআচার্ধা প্রভূর দ্বিতীয় প্রকাশ ॥
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