Near the tall palace pale of hue Shone lovely lakes where lilies blew, And lotuses with flower and bud Gleamed on the bosom of the flood.
An ample cavern opens there Made lovely by the mountain air, And lotuses and lilies fill The pleasant lake and murmuring rill.
There lotuses adorn the flood With full-blown flower and opening bud Where swans and mallards float, and gay Apsarases(737) come down to play.
The lotuses in close array Their passing loveliness display, And pard and tiger, deer and snake Haunt every glade and dell and brake.
Then Ráma’s house shone bright and gay With men and maids in glad array, As in the morning some fair lake When all her lotuses awake, And every bird that loves the flood Flits joyous round each opening bud.
Blue lotuses through all the land The glories of their blooms expand, And the resplendent earth is strown With peerless pearl and precious stone.
I salute thee who openest thelotuses (or the lotus of the heart).
Angels floating in the air sprinkle down in all directions Celestial Erythrina flowers, lotusesand coral flowers.
On earth tree-lotuses sprang up by sevens together, breaking even through the rocks; and hanging-lotuses descended from the skies.
They had all kinds of lotuses with them in garlands and branches, and were chewing the edible lotus-stalks; their clothes and hair were all wet, and they came dripping with water.
It so happened that in the season of spring, the king Dharmadhwaj, taking his queens with him, went for a stroll in the garden, where there was a large tank with lotuses blooming within it.
And surrounded by the celestials, and wearing a garland of lotuses and lilies the powerful wielder of the thunderbolt looked exceedingly beautiful on his car.
Your lotuses are lovely, Mr Midshipman Roberts," said Miss Linton, smilingly greeting the frank-faced lad.
I'm going to give my lotuses to Miss Sinclair," he said quietly.
In the beautiful old days real lotuses were given to the Nile.
The ecstasy on his big face was pathetic, as his brown eyes fixed themselves on a quantity of artificial blue lotuses she held in her hands.
The lotuses are as large as the two hands joined together, of a delicate pink, and set on the water in hundreds.
Past the blossoming reeds, past the blossoming lotuses and water-lilies, the great barge glided up the stream as in a vision.
And then Suryaprabha made a sacrifice with lotuses and ghee, and immediately a terrible cloud rose up from that lake.
And as he was strolling, he reached the bank of a river, and in it he saw five golden lotuses come floating down the current.
But I will return here, crown-prince, and will bring my family, for I cannot abandon the two ambrosial lotuses of your feet.
And as he travelled, he came in the evening to a pellucid lake, the lotuses on which were in full bloom, and which was full of an abundant supply of cold water, delicious as nectar.
And then he remained there in joy, united with that beloved Mrigankavati as a bed of white lotuses [141] with the night.
And when they fell into the water of the bathing-place in that river, the physician observed that those goldenlotuses were immediately produced from them.
She said--"Can this be the moon, that has swooped down from heaven in pursuit of the goddess of Fortune fallen into a cluster of lotuses of the lake?
The field of battle seemed like a lake, the full-blown lotuses of which were the faces of heroes; on these the shower of discuses descended like a flight of Brahmany ducks, and so ruined the kingly swans.
And in the middle of it he made a lake with full-blown lotuses, like a new productive bed for the lotuses with which the goddess of Fortune plays.
And so as we all stood waiting in the dusk, I and the lotuses and the sun, all at once I heard behind me a voice like a kokila, saying quietly: I have kept thee a long while waiting: wilt thou forgive?
Or, 'as a lake overgrown with lotuses is agitated on every side by an elephant.
The moon is called the lord of lilies because the water-lily is seen to bloom at moonrise, just as the sun is called the lord of the lotuses because the lotus blooms at sun-rise, The direction presided over by Indra means the East.
And it was wide and full of transparent water, and abounded in full-blown lotuses of the finest species.
Abounding in standards and ornaments, the pearls and gems (of the warriors) constitute the lotuses that deck it.
Adorned with beautiful garlands and crowns and turbans and pearls and gems, and possessed of splendour equal to that of the sun or the moon, they seemed to be like lotusessevered from their stalks.
Those heads decked with ear-rings, constantly falling on the earth, resembled a multitude of lotuses that Partha was calling for an offer to his gods.
Indeed, the scattered heads of the warriors looked resplendent like an assemblage of plucked off and crushed lotuses lying strewn about the field.
Indeed, that sea of troops was awakened by the rays of the moon bloomed (into life) like an assemblage of lotuses expanded by the rays of the sun.
A thousand hands, like lotuses of offering to a guest raised in reverent salutation, were raised by the citizens in their confusion and joy at his sudden coming, as he then unexpectedly entered the city.
And one day in the month of honey I went down with my mother to the Acchoda lake to bathe, when its beauties were spread wide in the spring, and all its lotuses were in flower.
The dust rose at the advance of the army like a herd of elephants to tear up the lotuses of the sunbeams, or a veil to cover the Lakshmi of the three worlds.
The Rishi's elephant then, freckled with the dust of lotus filaments, dived delightfully into lakes overgrown with lotuses and wandered by their banks indented with rabbit holes.
By Time the winds blow violently: by Time the clouds become rain-charged; by Time tanks become adorned withlotuses of different kinds; by Time trees in the forest become decked with flowers.
After he had proceeded for some distance, he saw an extensive and delightful lake full of cool and pure water, and adorned with lotuses and teeming with diverse kinds of water-fowl.
All of them were adorned with garlands of lotuses and all had companions bright as gold.
Salutations to thee that art fond of lotuses that blow in rivers, and that art always fond of singing and playing on musical instruments.
Indeed, I do not remember having ever saddened the faces of those who came to me as supplicants, and bereaved them of splendour by the disappointment of their hopes, so as to make them appear like lotuses withered by the winter-wind.
In the arbours and bowers, under the forest-trees with their laughing dress of flowers, and in the water with its expanding lotuses the king delighted in the unrestrained expansion of the natural dalliance of the females.
In many other places, where it was covered with the lovely petals and filaments of lotuses and waterlilies, it showed a wide-spread splendour, as if it bore a gift of homage.
Thus considering, he tied their hands like a bundle of lotuses with a creeper, and as they were reluctant and looked back at their father, he began to drag those young and delicate children along with him, threatening them.
The king is glad to give this lake, inclusive of the groups of lotuses and waterlilies covering its waters, to the birds, and grants safety to them.
It is the power of the sun that is the cause of the lotuses expanding.
There the pollen of lotuses and waterlilies, conveyed by the finger-like waves, would ornament its shore as if with gold wires.
These cars adorned with golden lotuses drawn by excellent horses are worthy of kings.
And the five Pandavas and the hundred sons of Dhritarashtra--that propagator of the Kuru race--grew up rapidly like a cluster of lotuses in a lake.
And now have INDRA'S elephants defiled The sparkling stream where heavenly GANGA smiled, And her gold lotuses the fiend has taken To deck his pools, and left her all forsaken.
O blessed one, it is wonderful to relate that in that tirtha, to this day, coins with the mark of the lotus and lotuses also with the mark of the trident, are seen, O represser of heroes!
And after having proceeded for many days the merchants saw a large lake fragrant with lotuses in the midst of that dense and terrible forest.
Go and inform king Janaka, who hath a garland of lotuses on his neck, that I am here.
Her plight is very much like that of a ravaged lake with the leaves of its lotuses crushed by the trunks of elephants, and with its birds and fowls affrighted by the invasion.
They took delight in beholding diverse beautiful lakes of limpid water and shining all round with lotuses and lilies.
Yonder is the lake Kausava, where grown the lotuses called Kausesaya, and here also is the sacred hermitage of Rukmini, where she attained peace, after conquering that evil passion, anger.
And the pond here looks like the morning twilight, for the lilies and red lotuses are as splendid as the rising sun.
A thousand lotuses that bloom by night, A thousand blooming when the day is bright, Nor close nor ope their eyes to heaven's sight; There is no night nor day.
The bee rambled at large amidst the flowery creepers of the forest, and resorted again to the bed of lotuses in the lake; because it is hard for fools to get rid of their fond desire, though it is attended with danger and peril.
They were now seen to be hiding themselves in the secret bowers and caverns of the mountain, like lotuses hidden under foliage; and now hastening to the cooling beach of the river, to leave their lovely limbs in its limpid stream.
He disported in the company of his lady love, as the swan sports over a bed of lotuses in a large lake; and indulged his frolics in his swinging cradles and pleasure ponds in the inner apartments.
They plunged and played in the waters removed from the sight of men, and were all naked with their uncovered breasts; blooming as the buds of golden lotuses in the lake.
The mountain king was crowned by the full blown lotuses that grow on its top, and was regaled by the sweet fragrance; which the odoriferous breezes bore from them.
Then came the sable night the only friend of the happy pair, spreading the veil of darkness over the face of nature, and smiling with the blushing of snow white lotuses and lilies of the valley.
Lotuses are known as helio-solenus, the white ones opening at sun rise and the blue kind blooming with the rising moon).
There were heaps of lotuses of golden hue, as also mandara and other sorts of flowers, to drive away fatigue by their fragrance.
So we see the three worlds lying under one another, in the womb of the unity of God; as we behold the sleeping and silent marks of lotuses and conch shells, inscribed in the hollow of a stone.
Holy saints and the knowers of the knowable one like you, are never moved by joy or grief; but remain untouched by them, as the lotuses remain intact in the water.
Then he gathered the Celestial lotuses for his queen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lotuses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
