History of Bengali Language and Literature c10.28

c10.28

Indeed the Hindu poets had hitherto taken particular care to keep scenes of illicit love out of their poems. But the *kutni* now became a very common thing in our literature, especially in the poems of Vidyā-Sundara. A very striking instance of such women as figuring in the poetry of the age is found in the character of Hirā mālinī in Bhārata Chandra's Annadā Maṅgala—the most popular Bengali poem of the day.