question

[Jan K. Brzezinski]

> I wonder if
> anyone knows the significance of this expression in the context of
> describing the Krishna image in the temple at Guruvaayur?  
> 	Thanks.
> 			Madhav Deshpande
> 
A field of peas in the winter is as blue as a field of mustard is 
yellow. Is that not an image of the colour of Krishna. I have never 
heard this image being used in Sanskrit poetry, which seems to have a 
knack for working every cliched metaphor to death.

Jan Brzezinski