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cious day (and moment), got plenty of food etc, prepared, invited his friends and relatives... upto...having honoured and respected them, adorned and decorated his son with all the ornaments, made him ride in a palanquin that was carried by a thousand men, in the company of his friends and relatives, went out of his house in all pomp and eclat, and went towards the house of Sāgaradatta (in a procession) right through the city of Campā; and making him get down from the palanquin, he took his son Sāgara to the merchant Sāgaradatta. Then Sāgaradatta (also) got plenty of food etc. prepared...upto...having honoured (his guests), made the boy Sāgara ascend a (wooden) seat with his daughter Sukumārikā, bathed both of them with (water from) white and yellow pitchers, offered oblations to the fire and made Sāgara espouse the hand of his daughter Sukumārika [20.116] Then Sāgara experienced the touch of the hand of the girl Sukumărikā tbus, and in this inanner, e.g. as if it were a sword-blade,......upto...... burning embers, and even more disagreeable than that. Then that Sāgaraka stood there for a while (with her hand in his) even against his desire, being helpless. Then Ságaradatta honoured the parents, friends and relatives of Sāgara by (offering them) plenty of food etc., as well as flowers and garments......and then.saw them off. Then Sāgaraka went to the bedroom accompanied by the girl Sukumarikā, and there lay down on the bed wi her. Then (again) that boy Sāgaraka experienced the touch of that girl Sukumārikā like this, e. g. as if it were a swordblade....upto...even more disagreeable; [P.21] and he lav there experiencing that (queer) sensation of the touch of her body. Then that Sāgaraka stayed on for a while, quite help. less, not bearing the bodily touch of that girl Sukumā. rikā. Then (after a while), that boy Sāgara, seeing Sukumā. rikā fast asleep, got up from her side, went to his own bed, and there lay down on his own bed. Now that girl Sukumarikā, being awakened after a while, who was chaste and devoted to her husband, not finding her husband by her side, got up from her bed, went to his bed, and there slept by the side of Sāgara. Then that Sagara experienced the selfsame
bodily touch of that girl Sukumārikā for the second time, Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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