A History of Sanskrit Literature c16.s2.17

c16.s2.17

‘While the calf, ever butting with its head, one knee slightly bent, and its tail ever moving prettily, sucks its mother’s udder whence the milk drips, the cow, lowing softly in delight at her child, licks the upturned face of the young one whose mouth is flecked by spots from her milk.’ Here we have a complete picture presented to our eyes and in a form which English does not permit us to approach in beauty.