A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s6.t4.19

v2.c19.s6.t4.19

All these similes and parables would be still more beautiful, if they were not spun out to such length and with such verbosity, that the pointedness of the simile suffered from it. This verbosity is very characteristic of the whole work. It is a veritable whirl of words with which the reader is stunned;