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VII. ] BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. 927 hirelings. The servants brought to them various kinds of sweetmeats, meat and wine in pro- fuse quantities, when a fool of an East Bengal Brahmin said that there should be separate seats at dinner. Hearing this the high priest of the Babu—the jewel of the forehead of all pandits— তা stepped forward and said ‘O thouthe most despised __ rules in the Chakra. of all mortals, dost thou not know the sacred ES books, dunce and illiterate as thou art? This isa Bhairavi chakra (a circle of the Tantricks), as people of various castes are present here and women have joined us. Ina Bhairavi chakra no caste distinction should be observed. You want authority ! Here it is :— Recites ‘a Sanskrit couplet here which means ;-— ‘Those who join a Bhairavi chakra, whatever caste they may belong to, should be considered for the time as the best of Brahmins. They should all drink wine, till they turn tipsy and reeling fall to the ground and rise to drink again. If they do so they shall be free from all future births and attain final emancipation.’ “When authority had thus been quoted all were quite satisfied and the Hindus, Mahomedans and শিরোমণি কহিলেন “ ওরে নরাধম মূর্খশান্ত্র জানিলি না, এক্ষণে এস্থল ভৈরবী চক্র বলা যায়, ভৈরবী চক্রে জাতিবিচার নাই । গ্রমাণং যথা__ ' আগত তৈরবীচক্রে সর্ষে বর্ণঃ দ্বিজোত্তমাঃ AB AQ পুনঃ গীত্ব। পুনঃ পততি ভূঙলে উথ্থায় চ পুনঃ পাত্র পুনর্জন্ম ন বিদ্যতে' ইত্যাদি প্রমাণ শুনিয়া সকলে হষ্টচিন্ত হইল। হিন্দু মুছলমান