Obverse: A four-armed silver star with the points shaped like lotus blooms.

Another variant of this motif is a single lotus bloom between two upright buds, a favourite fragrant offering.

Famed for its lotus blooms, recently controversy has sparked with mismanaged tourism development resulting in the massive die off of trees, and recent findings of pollution in the water.

The lotus blooms uncovering the creator god Brahma in padmasana.

Once when out hawking Naja had come across Heseret and two of her friends collecting lotus blooms to plait into garlands.

She lighted sandlewood incense, dipped a lotus bloom in holy water and sprinkled the offering before gliding away.

Inside the main chamber, a statue of Shiva rests oddly on a lotus bloom, a Buddhist symbol.

In the "Lotus Blossom Lamp," globes of pearly rose, shaped like lotus blooms, rise from a slender trunk of bronze.

The smell is ambient, the whiff of real lotus blooms stirred by her slow but purposeful strides.

And the lotus blooms in the greenhouse pond.