A History of Sanskrit Literature c15.32

c15.32

A short but charming treasury of detached erotic verses is the *Çṛiṅgāra-tilaka*, which tradition attributes to Kālidāsa. In its twenty-three stanzas occur some highly imaginative analogies, worked out with much originality. In one of them, for instance, the poet asks how it comes that a maiden, whose features and limbs resemble various tender flowers, should have a heart of stone. In another he compares his mistress to a hunter—