A History of Sanskrit Literature c15.35

c15.35

Many lyrical gems are to be found preserved in the Sanskrit treatises on poetics. One such is a stanza on the red *açoka*. In this the poet asks the tree to say whither his mistress has gone; it need not shake its head in the wind, as if to say it did not know; for how could it be flowering so brilliantly had it not been touched by the foot of his beloved?¹