History of Bengali Language and Literature c10.34

c10.34

in grossly sensual ideas. They descended from heaven to have a little taste of the mundane pleasures. The Sanskrit vocabulary and Sanskrit works of rhetoric became the chief sources of poetic inspiration; yet the period, by a strange irony of fate, was ushered in by one who was not a Hindu, as it would be natural to expect, but a Mahomedan. A Mahomedan writer arose with a mastery of the Sanskrit tongue, the like of which we rarely find among Hindu poets in the Bengali literature. He was Syed Ālāol, translator of Padmāvata a Hindi poem written by Mir Māhammad in 1521 A.D.