HISTORY
of the
Bengali Language & Literature.
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CONTENTS.
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Early influences on the Bengali Language, 1-15.
Early Aryan Settlement in Bengal and Buddhistic and Jain influences, 1-4.—Vernacular writings of the Buddhists—Opposition by the Brahmins, 5-9.—Moslem patronage followed by that of the Hindu Rājās, 9-15.
Pre-Mahomedan Literature, 16-91.
Dak and Khana, 15-25.—Dharma-cult and its exponent Rāmāi Pandit, 26-37.—Sahajia-cult and its exponent—Chandidās—the dangers to which it led the Vaiṣṅava society, 37-46.—Dharma Mangala poems, 47-55.—Songs of the Pal Kings, 55-63. The Caiva.-cult.—How it faced Buddhism—Buddhistic influences—Early songs in honour of Çiva—Çiva as a peasant—the domestic virtues in Çaivaism. 63-73. Genealogical records—their historical value. 73-91.
Supplementary notes to Chapter II, 92-114.
Bengali, a form of Prākrita.—How it was sanskritised by the Paurānik revivalists—Bengali verbs and case-endings—Assamese, Uryia and Bengali, 92-114.
