RE: Mayavada Fallacy - Narasimha (to Robert)

May 2, 2003

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mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">[Rath:] Narasimha, the language is

Oriya (could also be Bengali).

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language is very clearly Bengali; I think there is no doubt about that.

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Garamond"> It belongs to the Padavali or the Vaishnav Padavali genre of poetry.

Padavalis were meant to be sung by the kirtaniyas. Hence, the phraseology of

the book is lyrical and poetic, like most geetikavyas. Moreover, it is in dialectical

Bengali. The spoken language changes from region to region, hence you have many

forms of Bengali. The author of Chaitanya Charitamrita, Krishnadas Kaviraj

Goswami, has also added his own notes and commentaries below each verse. These

are in normal prose Bengali.

Best regards,

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Sarbani

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