Page:History of Bengali Language and Literature.djvu/642

 602 BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. Chap. uses, prove; yet he ৮565 অন্ুপাম which is not the right word,—it should have been অন্থপম. The poet knew this quite well, but took the poetic licence of using it, for the purpose of making this word rhyme more elegantly with ধাম ০1 the previous line. Here lies the difference between Vaishnava writers and those who are the exponents of the Pauranic Re- naissance in Bengali. These insisted on the Sans- kritic rules without compromise, whereas the Vaisnava poets, often the better Sanskrit scholars of the two, would follow their own keen perception of happy expression and brook no rules laid down by scholars and purists. As in the Payara chhanda so also in our familiar 7ripadi, they introduced innovations, yielding to the perception of elegance so natural with them. In the latter chhanda the first half of a line generally rhymes with the other half and the second line rhymes with the fourth ; but here are some verses in the 7ripadi by a Vais- hava poet, in which one half of the first line does not rhyme with the other, and yet the elegance of the metre does not at all suffer. “আমার অঙ্গের, বরণ লাগিয়া, পীতবাস পরে শ্যাম। প্রাণের অধিক, করের মুরলী, লইতে আমার নাম ॥ আমার অঙ্গের, বরণ-সৌরভ, যখন যে দিকে পায়। বাহু পাসরিয়া, বাউল হইয়।, তখন সেদিকে বায়॥'" (He wears cloths of a yellow tint because they are like me in colour, and as the flute that he carries in his hand, sings my name, he holds it dearer than his life. Whenever he comes across a colour or a scent that remind him of me, he moves forward like a mad man with his arms _ out- stretched.)