পাতা:মাইকেল মধুসূদন দত্তের জীবন-চরিত - যোগীন্দ্রনাথ বসু.pdf/৩৫৪

9YR छौवन-फ्र७ि । sufficient mastery over the 'Art of poetry" to do it justice. So you must wait a few years more. "In the meantime, I am going to celebrate the death of my I “ hilipping the cities and towns on the Coromandel coast by which his fleet passed and their historical associations, his landing at Suparaka pattana and his repulse by the natives, the separation of himself and his companions from their wives who are cast by a storm on the island Mahendra, the lamentation of the ladies at such separation, Vijay's arrival at Ceylon, his landing, faint, sick and exhaus ted on the sea-coast and sitting upon it with his tired hands pressed upon the copper-coloured soil (whence the name Támrapáni of that part and subsequently of the whole of the island, from which the Roman name Taprobane was apparently derived), Vijay’s engagements with the aborigines (Yakshas) and his conquest of the island chiefly by the instrumentality of his yakshini wife Kuveni (Cth), his repudiation of Kuveni who walks forth to the wilderness with a little son and a daughter in utter sickness of heart, her murder by a Yaksha, her spirit still appearing at times on the mountain Kuvenigalla and 'casting the withering glance of malignant power over the fair fields' and fertile plains of Bengal and 'still inflicting misfortune on the race of conquerors by whom she was betrayed,” Vijay's subsequent marriage to a princess of the Pandumandala country and that of his companions to her female attendants, the shade of Kuveni appearing at deep midnight in the bridal chamber to reproach him for his infidelity, Vijay's sending an envoy to his brother Sumitra insisting him to come over to Ceylon from Bengal, Sumitra's refusal, Vijaya's death, his minister’s calling over from the continent Panduvasudeva, Vijay's nephew, who is crowned as King of the island and whose descendants reign for 22 centuries over the island which derives its present name Singhala from the Singha race to which Vijaya belonged, all these incidents furnish very good materials for an epic poem. The poet may institute in it a come parison between the present and former state of Bengal and while