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a series of arteries which look like footpaths for the coming of other's wealth; whose arms are like the body of an aging python, suffering in hunger; whose hands look like the fruit of the Kośātaki, flattened, rough and dried up in the heat of the sun due to the network of arteries seen everywhere from the elbow downwards; who has a heart harder than the joints of the limbs which have corns; who has breasts resembling the big and flat wooden jugs tied to the pagotta; who has joints falling on the sides and the back as if she were with effort holding hiding places for her conduct; who is exhibiting a waist scarcely visible being concealed by a very prominent navel as if it had run away due to the fear of excessive sensuality; she drinks space as it were by her enlarging and broad buttocks; she is adorned with a pair of thighs resembling the staff of an oilmachine; she has two shanks resembling long and ripe cucumbers; and she has two worn out, flat, frog-like feet.
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It seems she desires to swallow the three worlds as her upper part of the body is slightly bent down and the corners of the mouth are open; she seems to provide a swing for Old Age because of her acquaintance with her since a long time, in the form of the loose hanging flesh of the arms; she brings to light a picture of her own conduct by all her limbs adorned with white and wasted scratches of the nails made by the vagabonds and rivalling the lines of the chalk like Madana's gambling leather board; who establishes her unsteadiness in all her limbs by the loose flesh; who resorts to childhood even though old, as some of her limbs were hunched; she with her nose curved like a parrot's beak and with her eyes fixed down is as if desirous of dragging out the serpents possessing flashing jewels even though they had entered the netherland; who is a cave for hiding the great treasure in the form of cheating the world.
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She valued the three worlds at the price of grass; her teeth has fallen like the course of Kaliyuga when the brāhmaṇas have fallen in rank»; she has turned away from amorous sport like a bitch who in coition turns her face another way; she has destroyed all the amorous persons like the beak of garuda «who devours all the serpents»; she is in the company of friends intoxicated with wine like gardens <where swarms of bees are intoxicated with honey»; she enjoys seizures like the conduct of the begging brāhmaṇas «who welcome alms»; she eats lots of fish and goats like the moon «who passes from the zodiac of Mina (Pisces) and Meşa (Aries)»; she has hundreds of pearls like the Tamraparni river which has hundreds of pearls; she is full of hypocrisy like the behaviour of a cat «in which deception is prominent»; she aims at another's wealth like the minds of a great men <which are intent on doing good to others»; she has conquered the three worlds by her adventures like Vamana who covered the three worlds with his footsteps»; she has
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| SR No. | 002914 |
| Book Title | Srngaramanjari Katha |
| Original Sutra Author | Bhojdev |
| Author | Kalpalata K Munshi |
| Publisher | Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan |
| Publication Year | 1959 |
| Total Pages | 312 |
| Language | Sanskrit, Hindi |
| Classification | Book_Devnagari & Literature |
| File Size | 21 MB |