History of Bengali language and literatureA series of lectures delivered as Reader to the Calcutta University . ll the Hindus, but the Bhagavata is mainly res-tricted to the Vaishavas. Though its circulation isthus narrower, yet its votaries admire it the morehighly, in fact it is looked upon by them as the onlysacred book and is revered with the Vedas. TheBhagavata has passages of high poetic merit ; itsdescriptions of the pastoral scenes and rural sportsof Krisha particularly are greatly admired ; they havefound peculiar favour in Bengal. The scene is laid onthe banks of the Jumna. Krisfia,
History of Bengali language and literatureA series of lectures delivered as Reader to the Calcutta University . ll the Hindus, but the Bhagavata is mainly res-tricted to the Vaishavas. Though its circulation isthus narrower, yet its votaries admire it the morehighly, in fact it is looked upon by them as the onlysacred book and is revered with the Vedas. TheBhagavata has passages of high poetic merit ; itsdescriptions of the pastoral scenes and rural sportsof Krisha particularly are greatly admired ; they havefound peculiar favour in Bengal. The scene is laid onthe banks of the Jumna. Krisfia, here, is not only thegod of love, but retains his omnipotent character,even as a shepherd boy. King Karhsa of Mathura,bent on killing him, stmds the demon-nurse Putana,who with poison in her nipples tried to kill thechild, but Krisfia while sucking her breasts drawsout her life-blood and kills her. The great demonIVinavarta comes riding on a whirl-wind, and theshepherds, who were grazing their cows on the banksof the Jumna, are awe-struck, when Krisha. who iswith them, p^iH^ the demon down by his hair, and. Four ranels from Bjuk Cjvcis, taken from the district of These [pictures were painted in lacquer on wocden Loard-. Tliey dote from the iClh to early 17th Tioducsd for the decoration of Eha^abaia Literature, IV. ] BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. 221 destroys him in the severe fight which ensues. Thedemons Vaka, Krimira and a host of others, sent byKarhsa, are killed in succession by Krisna. TheGod Indra, whose worship was forbidden by him,dooms Vrindavana to destruction, by sending heavyshowers of rain for seven consecutive days and nightsand exposing it to thunder-storms. But Krishaholds up the mount Govardhana with the tip of hisfinger and so makes it a shelter for the village. Thethunderer is weary ; the stormy winds crash againstthe rock ; the lightning makes deep cavities in it; hail-stones destroy the trees-, but beneath lies Vrinda-vana snug and co
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