History of Bengali Language and Literature c8.33

c8.33

Thus a study of our old literature brings to our knowledge various points of community in language, habits, and modes of living amongst those different branches that all came from one common stock and settled in different parts of the country. This affinity can also be accounted for by the fact that politically the five provinces to which a reference has been made, often remained under the same suzerain power. The title ‘Pancha Gauḍeçvara’ or the ‘Lord of five Indies’ was assumed by the King who for the time being became ascendant among the five powers.