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SOTRAKRITÂNGA.
With clever pretences women make up to him, however foolish they be; they know how to contrive that some monks will become intimate with them. (2)
They will often sit down at his side; they always put on fine clothes; they will show him the lower part of their body, and the armpit, when lifting up their arms, so that he will follow them about. (3)
And occasionally a woman? will tempt him to a comfortable couch or bed. But he should know these things to be as many traps under various disguises. (4)
He should not look at them, nor should he consent to anything inconsiderate, nor walk together with them; thus he will well guard himself. (5)
Inviting a monk and winning his confidence, they offer themselves to him. But he should know, and fly from these temptations 2 in their various forms. (6)
Meekly and politely they approach him with their manifold arts to win his heart; and talking sweetly in confidential conversation they make him do (what they like). (7)
As (men by baiting) with a piece of flesh a fearless single lion get him into a trap, so women may capture an ascetic though he be careful. (8)
And then they make him do what they like, even as a wheelwright gradually turns the felly of a wheel. As an antelope caught in a snare, so he does not get out of it, however he struggles. (9)
Afterwards he will feel remorse like one who has drunk milk mixed with poison ; considering the
The original has the plural itthîô, but the metre requires itthî in the singular.
? Literally sounds, which stands for objects of the senses in general.
