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p. xi

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[To appreciate this anthology, the English reader should remember, that according to the Hindoos, flowers are not only the arrows of the God of Love, but the very stuff of which his bow is made: bees are his bowstring, and MADHU, or Spring, is his âme damnèe and sworn ally.]