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What would be wicked words in the mouths of others is just joking in the mouth of one’s husband: what is smoke when it comes from other fuels is incense when born from the aloe.*

Hey you lucky man! Frenzied in excitement, roaming in pursuit of fragrance, that wretched girl has fallen into you, to become totally infatuated, like a bee into a poison flower, where it loses consciousness.

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Hey you foolish man! The tusked elephants have been dis- persed by their mere fear of an elephant in rut, so only the inferior beasts without tusks are enjoying the fe- males.

The wife whose body has become dwarf-like from all her polite bending, does not even step outside the threshold; but the arbor of kusumbha knows of her daring.*

“What is the use of inner qualities for which there are merely two or three occasional witnesses?” That is real quality in a song which delights even a deer roaming about the forest.*

When the co-wives saw in the morning that the young woman’s ornaments were all in place, at first they were delighted; but when they discovered lac on their husband’s head, they sighed.