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You “shy” one! There you are, blissfully asleep, your limbs weak from the night’s hectic love-making. Open the petals that cover your red lotus-eyes! A lovely morning to you!*

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Our mouths did not meet; I did not squeeze her breasts; our loins and thighs remained far apart; while uttering a hundred oaths, she embraced me merely with her arms.*

Lovely one, whom does your eye, which has a much admired pupil, can reach beyond the ear, and is suggestive, not infatuate? Just so, whom does the nature of the Buddha’s teaching, in which Tara is highly venerated, which can violate the Vedas, and which talks of “mental impurities,” not delude?*

Enough! Having recently become acquainted with the qualities of her lover, this girl is regretting that pointless fear and modesty cheated her of so much time, and is not chatting with the friends who share her bed.*

The body of that beautiful woman has become pale, lost half its weight, and is now possessed by the fierce pain of separation from you, pain that is the enemy of the three worlds and that resulted from her love for you, just as Uma of lovely body was reduced to half her size by Shiva the Enemy of Tri·pura, also called Ugra, who was filled with love for her and so absorbed her into his own body, so that only one half of her was left, because he suffered the pain of separation from her.*

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Seven Hundred Elegant Verses

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