History of Bengali Language and Literature c10.43

c10.43

of the latter, eclipses nearly all the other poets of Bengal in his profuse use of Sanskritic terms. For a Moslem writer to have the credit of importing the largest number of Sanskritic words into a Bengali poem and thus heralding an age of classical revival, is no small achievement, and we are bound to admit that none of the Hindu poets of the age in which he lived, was in this respect, a match for him.