@@TF-颈5可11 eYO favourite Indrajit, Do not be frightened, my dear fellow, I won't trouble my readers with vira ras (SS7). Let me write a few Epiclings and thus acquire a pucca fist. h. Po k hr TSLSSSLSSLLS SLSLLLSSG S S S LLSLSS S LSSS SSLL LS S SS mam 9. ● doing so he may allude to the Bengali king Bhagodatta, pompously styled in the Mahabharat as "the sovereign of the south and east, who, as the ally of the Rajah of Magadha, accompanied him to the vars of the Kurus and Pandus,-to the merchants Chand, Dhanapati, and Srimanta, the last two of whom performed voyages to Ceylon-to the Kings of the Pal dynasty, who, according to Ayeen Akbari and certain inscriptions, conquered the whole of India.--to Dheesena the son of A disoor who according to the said work took possession of Delhi which from his time for centuries continued to form a portion of the Bengali dominions, and to Pratapaditya of recent times who with his 52,Ooo shieldsmen, coped with the generals of Jehangir. If there be no strong proof of one or two of the above facts, still there is no harm in availing one's-self of them in poetry. The aforesaid comparison and the contrast between the beauty and fertility of Bengal called by an Emperor of Delhi "The Paradise of Regions" and the timidity and servility of its present inhabitants, unworthy of such a beautiful country, would give much scope for sich pathetic lamentation, as that of Derozio at the commencement of the "Fakir of Jangheera' with reference to India, and that of Filicaia with respect to Italy, and for possionate exhortation about our Supine and unenergetic countrymen. The physical appearance of Bengal, the aspect of the Bay, in calm or in storm, as Vijaya sails over it, "the Eden of the Eastern wave” Ceylon rising as a lonely vision upon the view of the tempest-tossed and heart-sick qxile and cheering his sinking spirits, and the rich natural scenery of the Cinnamon island, especially as described by Sir Emerson Tennent with such powers of minute and graphic delineation, would afford an extensive field for painting in words in which the personal observation of the poet, during his absence from his
