A History of Sanskrit Literature c12.s1.23

c12.s1.23

‘As her hand, full of water, was laughingly grasped by her lover, ’twas her kindly girdle which the water had stiffened that saved from falling the garment of the loving maiden, for the knot that held it had slipped.’ His play of fancy is constant and extensive; he acquired the style of parasol-Bhāravi from his comparison (v. 39) of the lotus dust driven by the winds to the goddess Lakṣmī mirrored in a golden parasol. Still less attractive to our taste is a simile¹ based on the mute letter (*anubandha*) between stem and ending in grammar.