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 670 BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. [ Chap. translation of the piece as it is impossible to convey, even in a small degree, any idea of the sonorous music created by its onomatopoetic expressions. Rhyming The rules of rhyming had not hitherto been perfected : by Bharata Strictly followed. As poetry used to be sung, the Chandra. defects in metrical form were made up for by the tune. But as the domain of poetry gradually separated itself from that of music, the art of poetical composition became gradually more finish- ed, and perfection in rhyme was aimed at by Bharata Chandra and the poets of his school. Hitherto it was held sufficient if the last letters of a couplet rhymed with one another; but the keener perception of the ear now required not only a fulfilment of the above condition, but also an agree- ment of the vowels preceding the last letters of a rhyming couplet. According to the last principle [10109 ০? লোক ৮৮10) অভিষেক, রস with বাস, Aaa with গেল, করে ৬৮1৮ তীরে ০1৭ ০০৪ faulty. Among the Vaisnava Pada-karttas Govinda Das, whose ear was naturally the most keen to,a harmony of sounds, had committed the smallest number of faults in টলমল মুকুতা কুগুল কাণে দোলে । টল টল. গজমতি মাল! দোলে গলে ॥ BH BH TNT AOR FBS | ঝল. ঝল, ঝকমকে স্বর্ণ ঝালরেতে ॥ ডগম্গ সপ্ত কন্য। চামর লইয়া । ধীরে ধীরে দোলাইছে রুহিয়! রুহিয় ॥ ঝন্‌ ঝন্‌ লাগে কাণে কক্কণের ধ্বনি। ঝকৃমক্‌ চামপ্র দণ্ডেতে জলে মণি ॥” Jaynarayan’s Harilila,