lotus
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
kumudam · the lotus flower food · water lily
spoken of as
1 expressionthe lotus1 mention
Odyssey (Greek)
They started at once, and went about among the Lotus-eaters, who did them no harm, but gave them to eat of the lotus, which was so delicious that those who ate of it left off caring about home, and did not even want to go back and say what had happened to them, but were for staying and munching lotus with the Lotus-eaters without thinking further of their nostos;
in the texts
Odyssey
A flower-derived food offered by the Lotus-eaters that erases the desire for home in those who eat it.
They started at once, and went about among the Lotus-eaters, who did them no harm, but gave them to eat of the lotus, which was so delicious that those who ate of it left off caring about home, and did not even want to go back and say what had happened to them, but were for staying and munching lotus with the Lotus-eaters without thinking further of their nostos;
Slokantara
A flower used in two similes: for the impossibility of certain qualities, and for purity arising from lowly origin.
So it is with the lotus;
* [Slo_25s-c] > *The lotus, too, so fragrant, has mud as its origin;
If there were a woman with a truthful mind, then a water lily could grow upon a rock.