APPENDIX I 467 অঙ্গিকৃত অদ্বৈত অধেতে ॥ তিন দেসে তি নরতি। কামের স্থিতি মস্তকে | তাহাকে সর্তা বলি ॥ প্রেমের স্থিতি চন্ত্রমগুলে ॥ তাহাকে মহাসর্তী বূলি। সত্যা জিব আত্মা ॥ মহায়াত্মা পরময়াত্সা। জিব আত্মা নারায়ন ॥ পরম আত্ম! ব্রজন্দ্রনন্দন ॥ ( আত্মনিরূপণ ) It would be hardly necessary to pass in review or cite passages from other Sahajiya works like Zrigunatmika,' Characteristics of পনি Rane 9৮9,587 the style of these (fafvaniripana,® Jighasapatri,* all পর of which belong to the same age of prose-writing and exhibit similiar characteristics; nor is much advance noticeable in Radhaballabh Das’s Sahaja- tatva, or Rasabhakti-chandrika (also called Aérayanirnaya) of Chaitnya Das quoted by Dinesh Chandra Sen in his Baiiga Sahitya Parichay,® It is possible that this may have been the peculiar esoteric sectarian manner of the Sahajiyas but all these writings may also indicate a stage in Bengali prose composition (very unlike that indicated by the Sanya Puram pieces) in which an aphoristic form of theological exposition was widely prevalent, partly due to the exotie influence of Sanscrit Siitra literature or Sitra form of writing and partly perhaps an indigenous growth formed upon the manner of exposition followed in native tols. One cannot but be struck by the evenness of method and manner—the sameness of production—of these Sahajiya works: the one work may as well have been written by the author of the other—there being hardly any
» Patrika, 1304, p. 415. ? Sahitya Parisat, MS, no, 355.
- Sahitya Parigat, MS. no. 338,
- Sahitya Parisat, MS, no. 937.
5 Vol. II, pp. 1655-58 and pp. 1660-61. Sahaja-tatva is also noticed in Patrika, 1306, pp. 76-77, Rasabhakti-chandrika (also called Bhajanes nirgaya) in Patrika, 1306, p. 66.
