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That body of the young woman, with the single, bud-like breast around both sides of which the string of her necklace clings, is eagerly employed by Kama like a cata-pult.*

Clinging to the top of the tree here, with its body slightly shaking in play—to that monkey, look! The bird wants to fly, mistaking it for a nest.

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Sugar-cane, the flow of a river, gambling, your resorting to anger, my beautiful one, and this line of your eyebrows: produces abundant juice when pressed out, becomes more impetuous when dammed, makes one more addicted after a loss, releases heightened passion when abandoned, and is particularly charming when curved.*

You move about in front of him who is like the moon with your face turned away and covered by a veil. Tell me, friend, what evil did you do, as if you were its shadow that faces away from it, conceals itself, and moves?*

Why do you trust here, deer, that woman with flickering eyes that express false affection? This hunter’s wife, all shaking with excitement, is interested only in your tail!*

This “earth” ⋮ ample woman displays here great pride over her size ⋮ touchiness and pride, having the cosmic ocean as her ornament ⋮ being decorated with an ocean of great beauty ; but of the god in the form of the Tortoise ⋮ but of her husband, were he in the form of a tortoise she does not even fill the whole back not to speak of his heart.*