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33. SECTION ON THE BREASTS
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304) Symmetrical and expansive, shining like two jars made of heated gold, the breasts are as it were the treasure of Cupid and are very difficult to have a sight of, for persons devoid of religious nerit (acquired in a previous life).
305) Comparable to fully ripe-mātulinga gourds, lofty, firm (solid) and closely touching each other, the breasts, bright like lightning, kill a person like the sky adorned (looking beautiful and gorgeous) in the rainy season and having lofty (high-soaring) clouds (उत्तगयन), closely huddled together (निरन्तर) and bright with lightning flashes.
306) The pearl-necklace, dangling (rolling) on the prominent (swelling) mass of the breasts of the young damsel, agpears lovely like the stream of the Ganges tumbling (rolling) down from the summit (lofty peak) of the great snow-mountain.
307) The pearl-necklace, not finding the slightest way be(tween the plump and lofty breasts, becomes nervous and dismayed and dangles on the bosom, like a mass of foam on the river Yamunā.
308) The expanse of the breasts contained partly by the bluecoloured bodice and partly remaining uncovered in the case of the adult (grown up) lady, looks like the orb of the moon slightly emerging from out of the interior of(or from behind) a water-filled (dark) cloud.
309) Oh lady with eyes large like the palm of the hand, your · breasts are like nectar (because of their coolness). They are possessed of an intoxicating (maddening) beauty (14 = 7)and hence they are like the moon, which is accompanied (characterised) by a deer (1744 = HIT). They are (big and) round like the temples of the elephant of Indra and they are averse to making a modest, miserly request (fenf@ule Hymayat).
310) Oh, these are not breasts; they have become my ene: mies in my own body. For even at the time of embracing, they keep my beloved one away from me!
311) Having seen her breasts, once so gorgeous and conti: guous with each other, now hanging down limp and flaccid, let
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