Obscure Religious Cults as Background of Bengali Literature c8.18

c8.18

¹ Ibid., Song No. 6. It should be noted in this connection that the story of the deer and the doe is very popular in old and mediæval folk-songs of the vernacular literatures. The saying that the deer is enemy to the world because of his own flesh is to be frequently met with in old and mediæval vernacular literatures. The Siddhācārya has here made use of the popular imagery to explain the religious theory.