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521) I have no taste (liking, desire) for food; but my heart is filled with thirst (ef). Oh physician I *. [Hidden meaning: I have no fascination for any one else; my heart is filled with deep longing for my beloved ( पियासा = प्रियाशा). Oh physician, your intercourse (i.e. intercourse practised by you) (alone) charms (fascinates) my body which is moist with the desire for amorous dalliance full of (genuine) affection.]
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522) The religious mendicant, who cannot secure Kura" vaka, Mandaraka, and Muggaraka flowers, how possibly can he get Dhatturaka flowers, though he may be carrying a flowerbasket (in his hand)? [Hidden meaning: He who cannot secure kurata, mandarata and mugdhärata, how possibly can he get Dhürtärata (sexual embrace given by a bold, audacious lady), though he may be carrying the sexual apparatus hanging like a basket?]
523) Oh religious mendicant, if you wish to cover the phallus (image of God Śiva) with Dhatturaka flowers, then you should come to the back-yard of my house after sun-set. [Hidden meaning: If you wish to cover your penis with the vaginal sheath by having intercourse with a Dhurtā, you should come to the back-yard of my house after sun-set].
524) Oh religious mendicant, visiting the dense (densely wooded) back-yards of houses for the sake of the Dhattūraka flowers, you will miss (fail to get) even Suraṁgaka and Kuravaka flowers. (Hidden meaning: Visiting the densely wooded backyards of houses for intercourse with a Dhūrtā, you will miss even kurata and suraṁgaka).
525) The religious mendicant wanders in the back-yards of other people's houses for the sake of Dhatturaka flowers; but he does not notice his own garden despoiled by others. (Hidden meaning: The religious man wanders in the back-yards of other people's houses for the sake of Dhurtärata; but he does not notice his own wife seduced and raped by others).
• Sense of the second half of the Gāthā is obscure.
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