History of Bengali Language and Literature c6.s2.9

c6.s2.9

As the popularity of these songs amongst the masses continued unabated, the Brahmins gradually took them up, and later poems of Dharma-mangal have been so greatly transformed in their hands, that they look very much like works devoted to the Ṣākta-cult; but reading between the lines, the readers will be able to discover evident traces of Buddhism in them. It should however be noted here, that the Buddhism indicated in these works, has scarcely anything in common with the pure Buddhism of Aṣoka’s time; and both are even more unlike one another than the Pourāṇic Hindu religion of the present day and the pure religion of the Upaniṣadas.