History of Bengali Language and Literature c2.74

c2.74

II. Mainly on style, literary tastes and language—The Sanskrit metres in Bengali—Bharata Chandra’s signal success—Valadeva Palit—His attempts to revive Sanskrit metres—Payāra Chhanda—Tripadi and its off-shoots.—Folly in alliterations and puns—Daçarathi’s style, a departure from classical model—Learned discussions—The meeting of the learned—The education of women—Arabic, Persian and Hindusthani, 804-824.—Change in the meaning of words, 826.—Bengali sculptors, 828.