Identifier: historyofbengali00sendrich (find matches)
Title: History of Bengali language and literature. A series of lectures delivered as Reader to the Calcutta University
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Sen, Dinesh Chandra, rai bahadur University of Calcutta
Subjects: Bengali literature -- History and criticism Bengali language
Publisher: Calcutta, The University
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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he body hung a loose tigers skin and theother half was apparelled in rich purple. Onone of the feet was the sweet sounding Nupuraand on the other a ring of serpents. T^^ o handsheld conch and discus and the other two thetrident and the Dumbura. Here also the world is emblemed in a highlypoetic language and in a manner which appealsseriously to the Hindu mind. The sublime andthe beautiful in nature, the elegance and glory oflife, pass into the desolation of the cremaiion-o-round. This figure is sacred amongst Hindus asembodying the facts of life without ignoring thoseof death, and both are placed side by side in theirnatural harmony, instead of that grim contrast inwhich they are jjeneraliy regardt^d elsewhere. The union Another signilicaiit point in the concej)tion of ^^cu^Its^^ this blending of the deities is that it could only bepossible when tin- various sc^cts of the Hindus—theC.dyas, tiie Cakias and the Vaisnayas were so farreconciled as to accept one anothers ideal inreligion.
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^ ^ ^ ^ IV. ) BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. 235 It should be smd that the description of Ardha-nari9war given from the peom of Yadunath doesnot occur in the original Chandi by the sageMarkandeya. The next translation of Chandi was from thepen of Kamalanarayana, a son of Yadunath. Thispoem contains many passages which are trulypoetic. It was written about the year 1717. TheMahammadan Governor of Bengal to whom herefers in his book was probably Saha Suja, son of theMogal Emperor Saha Jahan. The translations of other works such as Padma-vata by Alaol and Gitagovinda by Rasamaya andGiridhar. do not fall within the scope of the PauranicRenaissance, so we shall refer to them in a futurechapter. The writers of the w^orks, dealt with in thischapter, did not, as I have already said, proceed onthe plan of literal translation ; that would have giventhem only a literary interest. The translations werereproductions of ancient ideas with modern accre-tion of thought, meant to act as a living f

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