History of Bengali Language and Literature c10.41

c10.41

A list of his works. It will be seen that Alāol the poet worked manly in the field of translation, and the chief work of his Muse on which his fame rests—the Padmāvati—is only, as we have said, the Bengali translation of a Hindi poem. But Alāol's translation is not only free but is also marked by great originality, and though conforming in the main to the tale of the Hindi bard, is an improvement upon it in many respects.