Chaitanya and the Vaishnava Poets by John Beames
page 17 of 17 (100%)
page 17 of 17 (100%)
|
cannot stay in the house: My soul rests not, it flutters to and fro in
hope of seeing him: When she sees him, she will find her soul, quoth Urdbab Das." I have left myself no space to finish this Pallab, or to make remarks on the peculiarities of the language, which in the older masters would more properly be called old Maithila than Bengali. It is nearly identical with the language still spoken in Tirhut, the ancient Mithili, and in Munger and Bhagalpur, the ancient Magadha, than modern Bengali. As the Aryan race grew and multiplied it naturally poured out its surplus population in Bengal, and it is not only philologically obvious that Bengali is nothing more than a further, and very modern development of the extreme eastern dialect of Hindi. All these considerations, however, I hope still further to develop at some future time. |
|