Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c10.s3.t9.7

v2.c10.s3.t9.7

of Indian epic poetry and classical narrative poems in Sanskrit, and copied the myths and legends to establish a literary style with ornamental elaboration as its characteristics by a combination of partial tones, words or phrases with double meaning, metaphor, exaggeration and symbolic means, and lengthy compound words and adjectives. On the surface, these are rhetorics complimenting Siladitya, but if we view it from a deeper perspective, we will understand that he was trying to expose the truth and conspiracy in front of us with excessive flattery. His words are luxurious and elegant, but unreal and flattering, and only those words and sentences that take off their magnificent disguise and seemingly spring up inadvertently and unintentionally are what we should think about carefully and treat them as valuable historical materials. As long as we see through the nature and essence of the flowery language, we could get a glimpse of the truth and restore the true colors of history.