As lotuses are torn and crushed by a tusker. As lotuses are shorn of their beauty in consequence of the water (over which they grow) being dried up by the sun and the wind.
नलिनी द्विरदेनेव समन्तात् फुल्लपङ्कजा। क्षीणतोयानिलार्काभ्यां हतत्विडिव पद्मिनी॥