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 634 BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. [ Chap. a complete idea of the manly sports and pastimes that found favour during the Mahomedan period, though the description is not altogether free from exaggeration. Alaol’s Padmavati has little interest as a story. The story The characters are not delineated with skill, and চির the conception of the plot does not show any great mastery of the poet over his’ incidents. Its main charm rests on those stray glimpses of poetic elegances and high classical refinement, with which the book abounds, and noless on the great Poet’s erudition of the poet, indicated in many noble arene passages. We appreciate the truth of what Alaol ship. says of himself in the preliminary chapter of Badiujjamal. Padmavati; therein I showed the utmost powers that my intelligence possessed.” Though greatly inferior to Padmavati in poetic Another : eae — ‘ poem by merit, the Saifulmulluk and Badiujjamal of this Alaol. ; ; নি poet contains occasional passages of much beauty. The preliminary hymn to God is quite a match for that which we found in Padm§gvati. t‘‘ Where would be the glory of light, if it were not eye] Heal afoala fs AUASY | যতেক আছিল মোর বুদ্ধির শকতি ॥ Alaol’s Padmavati. +" উজ্জল মহিমা নাহি অন্ধকার বিনে। অধম না হলে বল উত্তম কেবা চিনে ॥ লবণ কারণে চিনে মিষ্ট জল সীমা । PIT A হত কোথ। দ্বাতার মহিমা ॥
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