History of Bengali Language and Literature c8.13

c8.13

language on the model of Sanskrit grammar and its orthography. Mukundarāma lived in this transition period; he used provincial words which were latterly condemned as unworthy to find a place in decent literature, as often as he used Sanskritic. In the spelling of words also he favoured the Prākṛita forms in use, as often as he adopted Sanskritic forms. The charge of mistakes in spelling cannot be laid at his door, as during his time old ways were not given up in our language, and the Sanskrit orthography was not yet fully adopted for the regulation of Vernacular writings.