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of one star). [Hidden meaning: Oh fair damsel, when the fra (-pudendum) is reversed and the nail-wounds (
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502) The board (slate) is extensive (spacious); the stonepencil (chalk) is large (big or long) and you too, oh astrologer, are very clever (at your business). And yet Venus has not come. Surely you are absent-minded. [Hidden meaning: The region of the buttocks is broad; the penis is large (big or long) and oh you gaṇaka (practiser of coitus), you too are clever (at your business). And yet the seminal fluid does not come. Surely you are absent-minded.]
503) Let that astrologer be burnt (to ashes), who though knowing the various karanas (astrological divisions of the day, eleven in number), and who though calculating a hundred times for me, has only a comet (dhūma dhūmaketu) emerging from his calculations. Hidden meaning: Let that paramour be burnt (to ashes), who, though conversant with the various modes of sexual intercourse and who, though penetrating a hundred times for me has only heat (dhūma = dhumaketu fire = heat) emergxing while he is penetrating].
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504) (Oh astrologer), if you are calculating once again with the help of the various karanas (astrological divisions of the day), calculate then with particular care. The (astrological) conjunction bereft of the movement of Venus, is surely not auspicious. [Hidden meaning: If you are practising coitus once again with the various modes of sexual enjoyment, then do so with special care and caution. No conjunction (coitus) devoid of the emission of the seminal fluid is ever good (or nice)].
505) Having given up the calculation with the help of the various karanas (astrological divisions of the day), although the extremely clever astrologer is calculating with the help of his fingers alone, still he draws Venus, existing in the nadi. [Hidden meaning: Although the paramour, having given up sexual enjoy
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