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 VI.] BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. Sit Malinivritti -— “ফুল সম নুকুমারী, দীর্ঘকেশী SUA! অচপল তড়িতাভা সুন্দরী গৌরকান্তি। যধুর নববয়স্কা পদ্মিনী অগ্রগণ্য! যুবক-নয়ন-লোভা কামিনী কামশ্োভা 1” Vamgasthavila :— “তথায় ভীমানিত-বন্ম-ভঁষিত প্রচণ্ড আভাময় চক্র মস্তকে। সবি্ধ্যতাগ্রি প্রলযোন্মুখাভ্রবৎ কুগাণ-পাণি প্রহরী ব্রজে ভূমে ॥" The lines in the Malini chhanda are nearly cor- rect. In the third line of the stanza in Vamgeasthvila the writer commits a mistake in compounding সবিদ্থযুতাগি which should have been সবিদ্ধ্যদগি. There are, besides, some other inaccuracies also. Vala- deva Palit, when putting Bengali verse in Sanskrit metre, omits to conform to the rule observed by the preceding Bengali writers, vz., that all metrical verses should rhyme. Strictly speaking the words 454 BSF are untenable in a Bengali poem which requires, that after the first word in a line containing three letters there should be a corresponding word containing three letters. The bulk of the old poetical literature of Ben- gal is in the metre called the Payara. It consists of 14 letters in each line, and there is a casura after 8 letters. If the first word in a line of Payara con- sists of two letters, either the second must have four letters or the second and the third must have two letters each. If the first word has four letters, the second word must have either four letters or Payara Chhanda,