Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c11.s2.29

c11.s2.29

It is curious that the description of Caitanya's visit to Vṛndāvana in canto xix is utilised as an opportunity of displaying the author's skill in various kinds of verbal tricks of the so-called Citra-kāvya, which is a characteristic of Sanskrit poems since Bhāravi's time. He employs, for instance, Ekākṣara (employment of one letter, *n* in xix. 37), Dyakṣara (i.e. employment of two letters *v* and *bh* in xix. 17, *l* and *n* in xix. 41), Asaṃdhyakṣara (employing no diphthongs, in xix. 89), Nirauṣṭhya (no labials, in xix. 55), as well as Gomutrikā-bandha (xix. 21), Muraja-bandha (xix. 29), Pratilomānuloma (xix. 45, 53), Ślokāvṛtti (repetition of the same verse twice with different meanings, xix. 49-50), Padāvṛtti (two halves of the stanza having the same succession of letters, xix. 33), various kinds of Yamaka (Antya-yamaka also in xv. 109), Anuprāsa and other verbal figures.