History of Bengali Language and Literature c7.s7.2

c7.s7.2

As I said before, these poems were originally written to glorify Dharma Ṭhākur who represented Buddha in the days of the degeneracy of Buddhism in Bengal. A wave of Hindu thought came surging upon the story, however, in later days, and the poems were transformed in such a manner that Buddhistic ideas fell into the lower stratum and the Paurāṇik spirit became prominent in them. The original conception is Buddhistic notwithstanding, and scholars are still able to trace it.