IV.] BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. 133 - the modifications introduced into older stories, at this time, in order toraise the Brahmins above the level even of the Gods.
- “ Tt is a Brahmin’s anger which, like fire, burnt Fables
down the great dynasty of tie Yadavas and of টি Sagara—the distinguished king of the Lunar race. It is a Brahmin’s anger, again, which has placed a blot. on the Moon’s surface. Even the god of fire, Agni Deva, and the god of the sky, Indra Deva, have been subject in their turn to a Brahmanical curse. A Brahmin’s anger has made the waters of the great sea saline. Even the greatest of the gods, Visnu, bears the mark of a Brahmin’s kick on his bosom.” Kaciram Das describes the incident of the curse of a Brahmin, under which Raja Pariksit was to die of snake-bite within a week. The snake had not yet appeared at the fixed hour. The Raja grew restless, and when a worm was found in a fruit presented to him, he cried out, ‘Let this worm become a snake and bite me, rather than that a Brahihin’s word should prove untrue.’’*+ There 1s
- ধার ক্রোধে যছ্ুকুল Zea fA ৷
ধার ক্রোধে নষ্ট হৈল সগরের বংশ ॥ ধার ক্রোধে কলঙ্কী হইল কলানিধি। ধার ক্রোধে লবণ হইল সলিলধি ॥ UI CHICA BAA VA HASH | ধার পদচিভু ধরে নারায়ণবন্ষ ॥ Kacidas’s Mahabharata. + < GB CATS] SRS STS G24 | দ্ংশুক আমারে রহুক ব্রাঙ্গণবচন |. | Kacidas’s Mahabharata. 20,
