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 VI.] BENGALI LANGUAGE: & LIFERATURE. 667 the eventual defeat and death of Raja Pratapa- ditya, and further accounts of Bhabananda Mazum- dar, who helped Man Sing in his fight with the Raja; it also describes Bhabananda’s visit to Delhi where he is said to have held a heated con- troversy on religion with Jahangir, who in a great rage ordered him to be imprisoned. An account is also given of his release from prison and of the ernoluments he received from the Emper Besides Annad4 Mangala, Bharata Chandra wrote pis other Rasamanjuri in Bengali, in which he classifies Works. feminine emotions and gives illustrations in imita- tion of Sanskrit works on Rhetoric. His incomplete drama, called the Chandingtaka, shows a curious ad- mixture of Sanskrit, Bengali and Persian, proving that he was a finished master of the three languages. There are many short pieces besides the above, which Bharata Chandra wrote on various subjects. One of the elements which we find in profusion @Qnomato- poetic exe in Bharata Chandra’s poetry is aliking for onomato- pressions. poetic expressions. A richness of sound is some- times lent to his lines by a harmonious assemblage of words not to be found-in any vocabulary, yet nevertheless conveying sense by the imitation of natural sounds. This is made very effective to the ear by the clever manipulation of the poet. Bharata Chandra had a store-house of such words; he revelled in them; they were often coined by him; but he is nowhere unmeaning, as he always took his cue from natural sounds. It would be impossible to translate words which do not occur in any vocabulary. I shall quote a passage here, in the translation of which I cannot help introducing the