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intoxicating) wine is at her disposal. If (in the midst of these excitants of passion) she does not turn an unchaste woman, should she die ?
477) Oh daughter, by the grace of the Gods and the Brāhmaņas, there has never been in our family, uptill now, the stigma of having a single virtuous, chaste woman (the stigmra of chastity)!
478) A woman is regarded as subhagă (lucky, blessed, popular) if she has had sixty lovers; she rises to the position of Rambhā (one of the Apasaras of harlots in heaven), if she has had a hundred; on attainment of the one-thousand mark (i.e. if she has had a thousand lovers), Indra himself honours her by sharing his seat with her.
479) If, surely, we are destined, after death in this world, to obtain some fruit of the good deeds done in this life,then may I make merry (enjoy) in these (very) arbours with him (i.e. with my paramour), in the same way (as I did in this life.) (Utterance of an unchaste woman).
480) "Whatever a person does, even that he gets (in future) (i.e. he gets the fruit of that in future)", hearing this the unchaste woman went out, thinking to herself "I must therefore now make myself merry there in his company, to my heart's content"!
481) The unchaste woman said to the chaste woman secret. ly, drawing close to her ear "Oh miscreant (sinner), you will go to hell, if you die ignorant of the experience of the love (or flavour) of a paramour (also, ignorant of the experience of a paramour's semen virile)" !
482) Where there is no kubjaka tree (a short-statured tree, densely covered with foliage), no river, no forest, no deserted house-say how can one stay there in a villege, which is devoid of any place calculated to inspire confidence and a sense of security and solitude in the minds of illicit lovers (a trustworthy place)?
483) Oh Rāhu, do not release (spare) this wicked, full moon. but swallow it (completely and at once) (without hesitation). For, oh accursed one, swallowing this moon, which is full of nectar, you will attain to longevity.
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