History of Bengali Language and Literature c8.28

c8.28

In Krithivāsa’s Rāmāyaṇa we find “the soldiers of Rāma fled precipitously, havig no time even to tie their long hair into knots.”† The Bengalis up to the 16th century wore their hair long as the Madrasis and the Uriyas do now. They scented it with perfumes and plaited it like the women. In the 17th century they imitated the fashion of the Moslem gentry—who allowed their hair to grow