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 818 BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. [ Chap. when the metre Payar had not been fossilised into [08681861115 14 letters with the rules of casura and the arrange- Pstcuat ot রর Bets pie adepar- ments of words in each line to which I have already ture from classical model. The last letter of the first line agreed with the last referred. Panchali was the metre for the masses. letter of the second line; and no other restraint Was put upon it. Sometimes we get couplets of the following nature :— '“' পরিধানের সাডী দিল ময়নামতি জলত বিছাযা। যোগাসন করিল ময়ন! ধরম স্মরণ করিয়া ॥' Manik Chandra Rajar Gan. The first line contains 20 letters and the second line 19. There are also numerous instances of very short lines, 95 তার বদলে ছয় মাস কালখায়'' (731616915.. Dacarathi revised the Panchali with this differ- ence that without conforming to the rules of the Payar, Tripadi, or any other kind of Bengali metre, he had stilla way of rhyming of his own, and the ex- pressions that he particularly chose were not crude or inelegant as in their earlier prototypes, but were generally of a refined character, though simple and colloquial. The Panchali suited the understanding of illiterate audiences who were taken by surprise by the wonderful rapidity and flow of doggerel- rhyme, which took a wild course, owing to its freedom from the restraints of any regular metre. “aera view aaft e4—rii (letters) Sia SHA A al BH ন। গেলে পরে মন্দ করবেন রাগে_75 (18065) উনি বলছেন পাবে BWI—10 (letters) আমি বলছি পাব ভম্ম_-9 (11675) পোড়া কপালে জোড়! নাহি লাগে__11 (1619175) 10 (letters)
 * quote a few verses from Dagarathi’s Panchal.