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Prakrit Verses in Sanskrit Works on Poetics
75. He is not satisfied if I only let him make love without bringing in the delicacies
of the game: and if however, I do that, I am afraid, he suspects how and where I learnt all that. How can then this poor girl give him satisfaction ?
76. For translation vide SP S. No. (372.119) supra.
77. Whatever you enjoy, my dear (or O, charming one), you owe it to the merit
gained in earlier lives. But enjoyment leads to temptation and exposure to temptation leads to sin. Thus (curiously enough) religious merit produces a cycle that leads to contrary results.
78. The favour which you won by falling prostrate at the feet of your angry wife,
you yourself, O, fool, lost when you called her by a wrong name.
79. Let the sun come up and let the moon go down. What do we gain or lose ?
But then the pity of it is by the same process the lotuses get and grow their beauty.
80. The pleasure of winter is only in the close embraces in which lovers huddle
together. The water - sports with the display of the breasts and hips of women being out of the question (or but the pleaures of enjoying the glimpses of the breasts and the hips during the watersports is lost).
81. The forehead, coloured with the dark paste of musk wondered : Why should
I wish to carry the face which is darkened with the darkish dent caused by bowing down to Siva, the God with three eyes ?
82. My dear girl, what is wrong in eating the leaves of the Pippali when no other
tree has any leaves on them ? (Or when there are no betel leaves, even Pippali leaves may do. What harm is there, my dear girl ?) In a village where there are no strangers to come by, even one's own husband is good enough for the purpose!
83. Women close their eyes out of deep satisfaction that sexual pleasure gives and
the eyes continue to remain closed out of the deep sleep it brings.
84. When fire issued from the third eye on the forehead of Siva, the Crescent Moon
on his head became scared of being scorched but Ganga from Siva's matted hair reassured him.
