It was mentioned in Indian literature by the 12th century when the writer Hemacandra described calico fabric prints with a lotus design.

In Ovid's version of the story, Dryope was wandering by a lake, suckling her baby Amphissus, when she saw the bright red flowers of the lotus tree, formerly the nymph Lotis who, when fleeing from Priapus, had been changed into a tree.

The tradition derives from tales which associate a white elephant with the birth of the Buddha, as his mother was reputed to have dreamed of a white elephant presenting her with a lotus flower, a common symbol of wisdom and purity, on the eve of giving birth.

Horus was occasionally shown in art as a naked boy with a finger in his mouth sitting on a lotus with his mother.

Also common is lotus which was brought to the area from Africa.

In another account, she was changed into a lotus tree to escape Priapus ; later, Dryope picked a flower off the tree Lotis had become, and was transformed into a black poplar.

They started at once, and went about among the Lotus-eaters, who did them no hurt, 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 return ; nevertheless, though they wept bitterly I forced them back to the ships and made them fast under the benches.

The name was generally taken to mean " she who brings children into the light " ( Latin: lux, lucis, " light "), but may actually have been derived from lucus (" grove ") after a sacred grove of lotus trees on the Esquiline Hill associated with the goddess.

Later, when Atum had become assimilated into Ra as Atum-Ra, the belief that Atum emerged from a ( blue ) lotus bud, in the Ennead cosmogony, was adopted and attached to Ra.

Nefertem (; possibly " beautiful one who closes " or " one who does not close "; also spelled Nefertum or Nefer-temu ) was, in Egyptian mythology, originally a lotus flower at the creation of the world, who had arisen from the primal waters.

This was a stuffed, headless animal skin, often a feline or bull, which was tied by the tail to a pole terminating in a lotus bud, inserted into a stand.

In other myths, which appeared extremely late in ancient Egyptian history, Sobek was credited for catching the Four sons of Horus in a net as they emerged from the waters of the Nile in a lotus blossom.

Whereas in Upper Egypt, it was the lotus and crocodiles which were more present in the Nile, thus these were the symbols of the region, and those associated with Hapi there.

As token wife, she was usually depicted with the same associations as Hapy, having on her head either the blue lotus for Upper Egypt, or the papyrus plant for Lower Egypt.

The beloved of Kalki is " पद ् म ां" " Padma " ( beloved of the " lotus ") who lives at द ् व ी प dweep ( island ) स िं हल े Sinhale ( not Sri Lanka because Sri Lanka was known at the time as " Lanka " in Ramayana )( स िं ह shiha ( Lion ) + ल े( of ))= " the island of the lion "( 1: 3: 9 ).

The lotus species was not to be located easily.

He was stopped in his tracks by the Rakshasas called Krodhavasas, but he defeated them all and reached the lotus pond.

This species is one candidate for the lotus mentioned in the Odyssey: it was so delicious that those who ate it forgot about returning home and wanted to stay and eat lotus with the lotus-eaters.

When asked whether he was a deva or a human, he replied that he had eliminated the deep-rooted unconscious traits that would make him either one, and should instead be called a Buddha ; one who had grown up in the world but had now gone beyond it, as a lotus grows from the water but blossoms above it, unsoiled.

As part of the sacrifice, he was ploughing the fields when his plough turned up a lotus in the ground.

Balasaraswati said that " the effort to purify Bharatanatyam through the introduction of novel ideas is like putting a gloss on burnished gold or painting the lotus ".

Balasaraswati said that " the effort to purify Bharatanatyam through the introduction of novel ideas is like putting a gloss on burnished gold or painting the lotus ".

The position is said to resemble a lotus, to encourage breathing proper to associated meditative practice, and to foster physical stability.

Often referred as thousand-petaled lotus, it is said to be the most subtle chakra in the system, relating to pure consciousness, and it is from this chakra that all the other chakras emanate.

Twenty-one of the Tīrthaṅkaras are said to have attained moksha in the kayotsarga ( standing meditation ) posture, while Rishabha, Nemi and Mahavira are said to have attained moksha in the lotus position.

Each member is said to " act as a ' petal ' of the lotus ," and it was announced that there would be six members.

The lotus in Nefertem's head dress typically incorporates twin ' menats ' or necklace counterpoises ( commonly said to represent fertility ) hanging down from the base of the flower on either side of the stem, recalling the symmetrically drooping pair of stems in the lotus and papyrus clumps mentioned above.

Vibhishana, said that the only thing he wanted was to have his mind fixed at the feet of the Lord as pure as lotus leaves ( charan kamal ).

It is said that in the ancient days, the pond extended up to Mammiyur and Thamarayur ( about 3 km away from the Temple ) and was known for its ever blooming magical lotus flowers.

" Since my mind has been engaged in the service of the lotus feet of Lord Krsna, and I have been enjoying an ever new transcendental humor, whenever I think of sex life with a woman, my face at once turns from it, and I spit at the thought.

A number of foods have been avoided while eating pork, including Chinese bellflower ( doraji, 도라지 ) and lotus root ( yeonn ppuri, 연뿌리 ), as the combinations have been thought to cause diarrhea.

Recent studies have shown that the blue water-lily of the Nile, Nymphaea caerulea, also known as the blue lotus ( already known under this name to the Greeks ), is another candidate.

Other scholars have argued that the movie is one in a long list stereotyping Asian American women as " lotus blossom, geisha girl, china doll, or Suzie Wong " by presenting Asian women as " passive, sexually compliant and easy to seduce " or as downright prostitutes.

Knowing this fundamental truth, I have resolved to offer my saranagati at your lotus feet alone that rest at the banks of Vegavathi river.

There are mountainous tundra areas, conifers and coniferous-deciduous forests, and forest-steppe, which is sometimes called the Far Eastern Prairie, where many ancient plant species have been preserved ,, including ferns, lotus, and the Chosenia willow.

They have been placed in two lotus bud shaped stupas which stand before the old hall.

Applied to the walls of the hall are small relief carvings of celestials, the host believed to have accompanied Amida when he descended from the Western Paradise to gather the souls of believers at the moment of death and transport them in lotus blossoms to Paradise.

Shiva, the meditating ascetic God of Hinduism, Siddhartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism, and the Jinas of Jainism have been depicted in the lotus position.

Formal boquets seem to have been composed of mandrake, poppy, cornflower and or lotus and papyrus.

The lotus, as well, can have several meanings, often referring to the inherently pure potential of the mind.

Unlike other Buddhas that have a halo attached to the back of the head, the Buddha at Seokguram creates the illusion of a halo by placing a granite roundel carved with lotus petals at the back wall of the rotunda.

Other scholars have argued that the movie is one in a long list stereotyping Asian American women as " lotus blossom, geisha girl, china doll, or Suzie Wong " by presenting Asian women as " passive, sexually compliant and easy to seduce " or as downright prostitutes.

The redundant inflection may have been inspired by Lithuanian, which otherwise contributed relatively little to Esperanto: compare fokuso ( focus ), kokoso ( coconut ), lotuso ( lotus ), patoso ( pathos ), radiuso ( radius ), sinuso ( sine ), and viruso ( virus ), with Lithuanian fokusas, kokosas, lotosas, patosas, radiusas, sinusas, and virusas ( virus ) vs. vyras ( man ).

The recent discovery of psychedelic properties of the blue lotus may also have been known to the Egyptians and explain its ceremonial role.

* Some paints and roof tiles have been engineered to be self-cleaning by copying the mechanism from the Nelumbo lotus.

They have given the name to what is called the lotus effect.

Particularly compelling to these professionals is the reported absence of " normal " healthy neonatal weight loss and breastfeeding jaundice in lotus birth scenarios ; studies of this correlation have indicated a significantly increased risk of jaundice in infants where the umbilical cord is clamped immediately upon birth.

The capitals have the shape and appearance of a gently arched bell formed of lotus petals.