Gahakoso Part 2

Author(s): Madhav Vasudev Patvardhan, Dalsukh Malvania, H C Bhayani
Publisher: B L Institute of Indology

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644. Reflected images of flames:
Oh girl, why indeed do you move away hastily after enkindling the fire (by blowing air on it with your mouth)? It is (only) the flames (of the fire) imaged on your jar-like breasts that are quivering and it is not at all the case that the flames (themselves) are touching (licking) your bosom.
645. Futile labour :
Oh (girl), how will stimulation of the fire succeed (i.e. how will you achieve the desired result of making it blaze forth) in the midst of the darkness of the smoke, while your brother-in-law, greedy for kissing your lotus-like face, is standing nearby?
646. Reflected image:
Oh girl, while you are stimulating the fire (by blowing air on it with your mouth), the flame (of the fire) imaged in your check, assumes the grace of a fresh, moist, tender (reddish) leaf placed as an ornament on your ear.
647. Let it go on endlessly to delight my eyes :
Let this your stimulation of the fire, which has caused your eyes to become reddish, which makes them shed tears (due to irritation) and which causes your swelling bosom to heave (with exhaustion), just remain incomplete (i.e. let it go on endlessly so that my eyes may be able to watch you for a long time in this charming situation).
648. Genuine and counterfeit :
The delicious juice which is found in the Pundra sugar-canes even when they are completely crushed, how can that delicious juice be ever found in the accursed stems of Bhamasa reeds?
649. Sugar-cane press and youthful age:
The nature (or behaviour) of the sugar-press and of youthful age is found to be one and the same (i.e. very similar). The former impels (or prompts) the action (of crushing) on the staff (i.e. on the sugar-cane, and the latter the activity of the membrum virile), they extract the fluid (i.e. the sugar-cane juice and the semen); they do not allow people to sleep (at night) (as the sugar-cane press has to be operated throughout the night and as the sexual act takes place frequently throughout the night).
650. Old hag:
Many an operator of the sugar-cane-press (also, of the sexual machine) has told us on oath that the wife of the village-chief has only a sweet voice, but there is no juice in her machine (also, no liquefaction or moisture in her sexual apparatus).
651. Firmly established:
Why indeed do you designate her, whose nature it is to have sexual relations (with the host of the house), as a temporary guest? Thanks to the weakness of our (my) house-master (i.e. of my consort), she has already become the mistress of the house.