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necessarily the cause of exciting passion in women, those breezes from the Himālayas, thinking that your body might, very possibly, have been touched previously by these, are embraced by me through love for your body, Oh valiant one ! give, therefore, a short but agreeable reply. Do not disappoint me. If at all it pleases you, you should say-' Oh beautiful one ! contemplating mentally very much, I am holding me up by myself; so do not, on your part, have recourse to nervousness at all events'.”
The demon, thus giving maltreatment to the sage through a woman (or women), had his efforts turned futile very soon; on the contrary he had become sorrowful. To whose lot does invariable ( or absolute ) happiness or unalloyed misery fall ? One's state goes up and down after the manner of the periphery of a wheel. The autumnal season, desirous, as if, of speaking loudly“The ban put upon my advent has come to an end as Vişnu has got up from his serpent-bed', had set in when the superhuman power in the form of pure and perfect knowledge had sprung up in the sage, and when the demon, desirous of throwing on the head of the Sage, had uplifted a mountain. The autumnal season, spreading in all directions her laughter in the form of moonlight to deride, as it were, the unwise course of the demon's conduct in misery, preventing openly as if the advent of the summer-season through the clearness of all quarters, with the words- Oh you ! who are clever, with both of your eyes shut [ i. e. with your hot rays contracted ], remove them [ your rays ] to other months,' had set in.
The lord of serpents, directed by his shaking seat, making use of his Avadhi ( a particular modification of knowledge ), said to his beloved wife- Having gone to-day we shall first of all worship the lord and then, during the night having the mature moonlight, we, both of us, shall enjoy those very various desires of ours multiplied by the feelings of love springing up in our minds on account of our loneliness'. At the time when the celestia
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