History of Bengali Language and Literature c8.9

c8.9

lustre. The pomegranate fruit bursts when ripe, owing to this feeling of shame." These lines of Mukundarāma, sounds a prelude to the style of which Bhārat Chandra in a later age was the finished master. In the literature of this period there will be found instances of figures of speech and clever turns of thought borrowed from Sanskrit, shewing that a new era was dawning on our literature which welcomed art in the place of nature, and valued the rules of Sanskrit rhetoric more than the dictates of the heart.