Crossword-Solution: BHASA 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Thus Bana, a celebrated novelist of the seventh century, has the following lines in some stanzas of poetical criticism which he prefixes to a historical romance: Where find a soul that does not thrill In Kalidasa's verse to meet The smooth, inevitable lines Like blossom-clusters, honey-sweet? A later writer, speaking of Kalidasa and another poet, is more laconic in this alliterative line: _Bhaso hasah, Kalidaso vilasah_--Bhasa is mirth, Kalidasa is grace.

The Malays also have their bhasa dalam, or courtly style, which contains a number of expressions not familiarly used in common conversation or writing, but yet by no means constituting a separate language, any more than, in English, the elevated style of our poets and historians.

Western Hindi has four main dialects, Bundeli of Bundelkhand, Braj Bhasha (properly "Braj Bhasa") of the country round Mathura (Muttra), Kanauji of the central Doab and the country to its north, and vernacular Hindostani of Delhi and the Upper Doab.

BALI and LANKA-BHASA (ancient SINHALESE) are derived from it, and it has very largely influenced modern CINGHALESE.

The women delight in every practice that can deceive their lords, and they have invented a system of speaking to each other in what may be called an inverted language--in Malay, “Bhasa Balik.” It is spoken in different ways: ordinary words have their syllables transposed, or to each syllabic another one is added.