Parshvabhyuday

SR No.: 001704
Original Sutra Author: Jinsenacharya
Author: M G Kothari
Publisher: Gulabchand Hirachand Doshi
Total Pages: 844
Language: Sanskrit, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari, Literature, & Mythology
File Size: 16 MB

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beauty of the temples situated in the Mahākāla forest and having performed the evening-rites in that temple, He should move about in that city seeing amorous sports of the women going slowly to the residence of their lovers for the sake of having nocturnal sexual enjoyment. The women, cherishing strong desire for males, highly inflamed by passion, would not be able to go alone to the places of appointment, when He, who would have blockaded the heavenly path, would be giving out roaring thunders and when the royal roads would have the light obstructed by the masses of very pitch darkness at night. He should not be very noisy while giving forth thunders and should contract immediately His expanse. The act of impeding is looked upon favourably by the wicked and not by the noble-minded. He, a benevolent one, should help the distressed. By means of flashes of lightning shining like a gold-streak on a touch-stone He should point out the earth to those that would be distressed. If at all He would be ardently desirous of giving forth thunders for the sake of ridiculing, He should roar very slowly as charmingly as the jingling of anklets and as the internal inarticulate murmuring uttered at the time of cohabitation. He should not pour showers of heavy rain and should not be noisy with thunder at the time of pouring down rain on account of the women there being timid. He, enjoying fragrance of the incense burnt at the time of the noxturnal cohabitation, having His beloved, the lightning, fatigued owing to her emitting flashes of light again and for a long time, possessing a very expansive bodily form, having roamed for a long time over the city and having spent that whole night on the upper part of some mansion-gallery having pigeons asleep, should enjoy happiness. Though the momentary familiarity with the city of Ujjayini surpasses the [ life-long ] stay in the heavens, He, giving up His fondness for the city and dispelling enmity with him [i. e. Śambara | by entering into friendship ( with him ), should cover the remaining