History of Bengali Language and Literature c2.34

c2.34

III. The conception of Çiva in the Renaissance and songs in honour of him, 235-250.—The impersonal character of Çiva—Çaivaism goes to the back-ground—Development of Çākta and Vaiṣṇava cults, 235-239.—Çiva as a peasant in the earlier poems—his later development into the patriarch of a family—The great pathos of the Āgamani Songs—A passage from Rāmeçwara's Çivāyana—other poems in honour of Çive 240-250.