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৫ম বর্ষ, তৃতীয় সংখ্যা roata fattiasta it, but do not imitate it. It is urbane but conven- tional, elegant but s!iff; it has form but no movement, it has colour but no warmth; in a word, it is as re- fined as it is bloodless. It seems that the spirit of the Shastras--the legal spirit—had taken possession of its soul, and crushed out its vitality. The latter- day products of Sanskrit literature show that the spirit of India stood in urgent need of thorough renovation, 11. The invasion of the Mohammedans, which took place in the eleventh century A.D., gave the death- blow to the classical civilisation of India, and along with it to the decaying Sanskrit literature. Two hun- dred years did not pass before India saw the birth of a new literature-the vernacular literature. As its language shows, this literature was popular in its origin, and had, whether in spirit or form, little or no connection with the classical. The so-called Prakrit, or popular literature of the previous age was, how- ever, even more artificial than the Sanskrit, and had nothing popular whatever about it. The new litera- ture came out of a new religious movement, in which another side of the soul of our people is revealed- the emotional. During the course of ages Brahminio institutions had become so rigid and Brahminic thought so abstract, that they had practically ceased