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effected a state of enjoyment of wealth procured by deceit like the tenet of Pañcarātra according to which the state of enjoyment (similar to gods) is achieved by the power of Māyās; she is void of love like the grains of sand which have no oil; she has devoured all the wealth like the Ganges which has covered the whole world; she is hard to be understood like the form of Viśvarupa «which is difficult to look at>; she is clever in making room for another by means of rules like the rule of Grammar in which the preposition turns the (verb) into parasmaipada»; she is skilful in creating beauty like a group of students «clever in knowing the declension of forms; she is intent on shaking off (people) like the mind of a sage «eager to obtain salvation»; she has destroyed other people like the tenet of the Lokāyatas «who do not accept the existence of another world»; and she captures a person by the means by which he can be taken in to the best of advantage like the policy of CÄNAKYA by which a person can be captured by any means.
She is proficient in arts, quick in reading the minds of others, conversant in the profession of courtesans, smart in cheating others, (16) an expert in subduing the arrogant paramours, clever in deception, conversant in talks practised by harlots, bold in speaking purposeful words, and has the sharpness to get together those separated.
She shows everything but does not give anything; sometimes, however, she gives a little and then takes away even the hidden treasure as water gone into the ears is drawn out by the juice of vāla; she has mastery over the secrets of harlotry; she is never cheated by vițas; she is requested by dhūrtas for deceiving others but is never troubled; she deceives others but is never deceived her self; she stupefies others but does not become stupefied herself; she troubles others but is never troubled herself; she bewilders others but is not bewildered herself; she gives hopes but like a mirage never fulfills them. She is the abode of falsehood; the house of hypocrisy, the mansion of delusion, the residence of roguery, the path of bad conduct, the place of false modesty, the resort of courtesy, and sole actor of the drama of deception.
It appears that she is the movement of Fate's designs, the doer of evils and the destroyer of good things; her beginning, middle and end is not known like that of destiny; she is nice but cannot be thought of like Avidyā; she brings about bad after-effects like the eating of the Kimpāka fruit; she shows straightforwardness, but is wicked in actions like the body of a serpent which is straight but moves zigzag”; she does nothing good to others like worldly life
in which there is absence of the ultimate reality. She is the store-house of adharma, the mine of flattery, the life of deceit, the residence of adventure, the origin of sin, the place of fickleness, the house of conciliation, the mansion of fraud, the house of pretence,
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