History of Bengali Language and Literature c8.19

c8.19

Not only in the language, but also in costumes and habits, the Bengalis of past times were more like their brethern of the up-country. They used to wear a turban and tuck up the Dhuti tightly between the legs as the Hindustani people do now. When the merchant Chānd presented three silk clothes to the Rājā of Ceylon, the Rājā was taught to wear it after the fashion of the Bengalis, and Vijay Gupta thus describes it :—