A History of Sanskrit Literature: Classical Period, Vol. I c4.34
A History of Sanskrit Literature: Classical Period, Vol. I c4.34
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But the Sanskrit poets being thwarted in dealing with free passionate love as the chief theme of a glorious Kāvya gave indulgence to the repressed sex-motives in gross descriptions of physical beauty and purely carnal side of love both in long-drawn Kāvyas and also in lyrics. It is for this reason that the genius of Sanskrit writers in their realism of life has found a much better expression in small pictures of lyric poems than in long-drawn epics. The repressed motive probably also explains why we so often find carnal and gross aspects of human love so passionately portrayed.