History of Bengali Language and Literature c10.17

c10.17

Poetry under such patronage became the creation of schoolmen and courtiers. It no longer aimed at offering its tribute to God but tried to please the fancy of a Rājā; the poets found the gates of the palace open to receive them and cared not if the doors of heaven were shut. For models of Bengali court-poetry, we shall quote here a passage translated from the Naiṣadha Charita—a Sanskrit poem held in great admiration by the scholars of the period.