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 V.] BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. — 603 Various metres were invented by the Vaisnavas which please the ear, though they do not conform to the style already adopted in Bengali composition. Here is an example of long and short lines rhyming with each other and producing a singularly happy effect by their deviation from ordinary metre :— “ ধনি রঙ্গিণী রাই। বিলসহি হরি সঞ্জে রস অবগাহই | হরি সুন্দর মুখে । SPA CHE pee নিজ মুখে ॥ ধনি রঙ্গিণী ভোর। ভূলল গৌরবে কান করি কোর ॥ ছহু' ছুহু' গুণ গায় । একই মুরলীরন্ধে। ছুজনে বাজায় ॥ কেহ কেহ কহে মৃছু ভাষ। নারীপরশে অবশ পীতবাস ॥ কেহ কাড়ি লয় বেণু। রাসে রসে আজ ভূলল কাণু॥' (The lovely Radha, steeped in sweet emotions, sports with Krishna. She puts sweet betels into his mouth and kisses him. She puts her arms about him in the delight of her heart. They praise each other with sweetest words and play together on the same flute. Some of the maidens whisper softly “how charmed is Krisna by his lady’s touch !” Others snatch away his flute by force. IXrisha is lost in the pleasure wrought by the company of the milk-maids.) I give below a list of obsolete words, with their A list of
 * তত ৫ obsolete

meaning from the works dealt withinthis chapter. words and their yy—to prove: to cure. meaning. 3teata—authority and power. fet3—to teak