This long train of similes, in which the images of the lotus flower and the moon so perpetually occur, is too characteristic to be omitted or compressed.

I have here and there used the license of a paraphrase.] [Footnote 113: p.54.l.5._Like the pallid night, when Rahu_.

This is a favourite simile of the Indian poets.
That snatched my love from the uplifted sword, Like the pale moon from Rahu's ravenous jaws.
WILSON'S Malati and Madhava, p.

62.
-- -----------and now thou fall'st, a prey To death, like the full moon to Rahu's jaws Consigned.
Ibid.p.

115.
In Indian mythology, eclipses are caused by the dragon Rahu attempting to swallow up the moon.