632 BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. [ Chap. the clouds which He lined with lightning. He pervades the universe—both revealed and unre- vealed. The virtuous and the saintly know Him, but the vicious know Him not.”’ In this hymn Algol follows more or less the Hindi original of Mir Mahomed. But though in the main story Alaol follows a The charac- <tyJe on the line of the Sanskrit classics and shows teristic fea- , : tures ofa a wonderfully close acquaintance with the manners, Mahomed. whe ; antale. customs and religious life of the Hindus, yet reading between the lines one may discover the vein of a Mahomedan poet by the non-Hindu elements to be found in his work, though couched beneath a highly Sanskritised form of Bengali. A certain extravagance of imagination reminds us, at every stage, of the excesses of fancy which characterise Arabic and _ Persian (2165. Raja Ratna Sen heard .of the beauty of Padmavati, and even before he saw her, fell into a fit of violent love; renounced the world as an ascetic, and wandered through the forests. And ‘with him 1600 princes turned ascetic.”* The
স্থজিলেক স্থুণীতল গ্রীষ্ম রৌদ্র আর। করিল মেঘের মাঝে বিহ্যৎ সঞ্চার ॥ প্রকট গুপ্ত রহে সবাকারে ব্যাপি । ধার্মিক চিহ্য়ে তারে না চিহয়ে পাপী॥ Alaol’s Padmavati.
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