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 The Hindu women, The inter. change of customs and ideas bet. Maho- medans & Hindus. 792 BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. [ Chap; horns of rhinoceros, mounted in gold which look like dark clouds lined by lightning. Their lovely tresses that hang loosly down their backs are peerless ; over the breasts of some hang necklaces of bright pearls, which look as though over the peaks of the Himalaya flowed the white stream of the Ganges.” But the Raja knew where to stop. At this stage of his description, he suddenly cuts it short’ by saying :— t“The sight of women should create in.the mind feelings of respect ; never should any unholy thought be entertained.” This account of Benares giving a topography and other details about the city of a particular period will increase in value, in course of years, and will possess the same interest as the account of Jeruselem by Mandevile, Brahmakhanda 0৮ Vyasa, and Navadwipa by Narahari Chakravarty. Hindus and Mahomedans had now lived in Bengal for long years in close proximity and on terms of peace and unity, and they were naturally ঘোর ঘন মাঝে যেন তড়িত জড়িত ॥ কি উপম। দিব যেই পিঠে দোলে cat কারু উরোদেশে মৃক্তা- মালার দোলানী । হিমাচলে আন্দোলিত যেন মন্দাকিনী ॥"" 1" এ সব দর্শনে ভক্তি মনেতে হইবে । কর্দাচিৎ অনাতাব মনেতে নহিবে y”
 * “ Some of them wear bracelets made of the.
 * '' গগ্ারের চুড়ী কারু কনক-রচিত।