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Prakrit Verses in Sanskrit Works on Poetics 335. For translation vide ŚP S. No. (70.55) supra.
336. While in bed with me she turned over to the other side in her anger, but
after a while her mood changed and pretending to be asleep she turned to face me and bumped into me with her big breasts. I still remember that pleasant impact !
337. I am fully aware, dear friend, that my behaviour with him cannot be said
to be proper for a maiden like me—but this accursed love pushes me to the forefront of shamelessness.
338. "No, no! please say it again; I couldn't hear it properly." This is how a young
woman manages to prolong her husband's whisperings in her ears relating to love's delights.
339. Let her have him, aunt, give him to her, she desires him by her heart. Don't
you see she is wasting away in her body? How possibly can there be any one desired by the heart in the case of virgins like us ? Saying thus she fainted.
340. The whole group of her friends started leaving the pleasure-house and the
newly married young girl too, in all her innocence began to follow them. Her husband smiled and stopped her.
341. The stream of her loveliness surges forth with the sheen of liquid gold, boiled
and purified by the fire of love burning inside her and gathers in the globes of her breasts.
342. The wife spreads on the chest of her husband fatigued by his amorous
dalliance with her on a summer afternoon, her mass of moist hair from which flowers are still dropping and which (mass of hair) are still fragrant with the lotions / creams used while bathing.
343. The adorable gentleman / charming one quaffs in one gulp the bitter
decoction, without leaving a drop because it has been cooled by the sweet breath of the lotus-mouth of the lady who has come to inquire after his health.
344. Dear night-prowler, you should not go about at such a time. It is so easy
to notice you like a little lamp in thick darkness.
