History of Bengali Language and Literature c10.52

c10.52

The lotuses are her two eyes. The sun according to the poetic tradition of Sanskrit rhetoric (কবি-প্রসিদ্ধি) is a lover of the lotus. The moon is unfriendly towards the lotus according to a similar tradition. The lotus blooms in the daytime and fades in the evening—a circumstance which caused the acceptance of this idea by the poets.