Vajjalaggam

Author(s): M V Patwardhan
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society

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hidden sense in most cases. This remark holds good also in the case of the sections on लेह्य (लेखक) (No. 52 ) ; विज्ज (वैध) (No. 53 );
मि (धार्मिक) (No. 54); जैतिय (यान्त्रिक) (No. 55 ); मुसल (No. 56 ); and उड्ड (33) (No. 61). All these seven sections, standing approximately in the middle of the whole collection, may be said to form the core or nucleus of obscenity or indecency of the Vajjalagga, though it must be admitted that in the characteristic manner of ancient Indian writers, the obscene, parnographical import is always conveyed in a subtle way by suggestion and hardly ever by direct expression. Cf. the dictum from Kamaśāstra quoted by Mammata in Kāvyaprakāśa VII: द्वयर्थै: पदै: पिशुनयेत् ( = सूचयेत् ) च रहस्यवस्तु ।
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In the section on the astrologer (f) the following words have been frequently used with a hidden, suggested, obscene import. (1) खडिया ( = खटिका ) and सलाया ( = शलाका) : (i) chalkstick or stone-pencil (ii) penis. (2) फलय (= फलक) (i) wooden board or slate-board (ii) tanfeet, pudendum muliebre; (3) करण (i) the astrological divisions of the day which are eleven in number (ii) the various modes, positions, postures or attitudes () in sexual intercourse; (+) () (i) the planet Venus (ii) semen virile, seminal fluid (सप्तमो धातुवीर्यम् ); (5) सुक्करस गई जान (i) to know the mutations or movements of Venus in the zodiac know the behaviour of the seminal fluid; to know how to the discharge or emission of the seminal fluid; paraphrased by the commentator on st. 497 as शुक्रस्य सप्तमधातोः स्तम्भन कर्तुं जानाति. Cf. सुकसंचारं जाणइ in st. 507 and its explanation in the commentary. (6) √(√) to make astrological calculations and forecasts, (ii) to practise coitus; (7)()(i) to ask or request one to make astrological calculations and forecasts; (ii) to ask or request one to practise coitus; (8) 7 (79) (i) astrologer, (ii) practiser of coitus; (9) 4 (i) the planet Mars, (ii) अङ्गरत physical intercourse ; ( 10 ) रहबिबं (i) रविविम्ब orb of the sun, (ii) रतिबिम्ब pudendum muliebre; ( 11 ) नक्खत्त (i) नक्षत्र a constellation, (ii) a nail-wound or nail-mark, (12) (i) a drop of rain. water, (ii) a drop of seminal fluid; (13) fanfga (1) fan being in the constellation चित्रा, the fourteenth lunar mansion, (ii) चित्तस्थित being in the mind i.e. on which the mind is focussed or concentrated with a view not to allow it (the seminal fluid) to drop or escape; (14) a comet, (ii) (15) V.L...33
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fire or heat;