History of Bengali Language and Literature c10.42

c10.42

An improvement on the original. The Padmāvati is written in a high flown Sanskritic Bengali. Alāol is the first of the poets who aimed at word-painting and at that finished Sanskritic expression which is the forte of the Bengali literature of the 18th century. In fact Alāol, though, generally speaking, inferior to Bhārata Chandra, because he lacks the "elegant genius"