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Quickly it passed along the young men as if they were beads of a rosary; but her finger came to rest when it reached you, lucky man, as if you were the central bead.

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There is only one person who lives, though void of a heart, wisely and happily, and that is Rahu; for he does not carry a stomach that is difficult to fill and is the cause of all kinds of humiliation.*

I can see her face, at the gate of the town: her ears drenched in tears as one of my hands loosens her braided hair and the other one lifts up her chin.*

As the sole base of her life, though unreliable and always causing inner torment, that wretched girl carries inside her—you, as if you were the air in her nose on which life depends, which moves constantly and produces the warmth of the body.

[She:] My one mind says “I shall go,” but my other heart says “I shall not go.” [Her friend:] It is only fitting that you should have two hearts, beautiful girl, because you have stolen the mind of your lover!

Lying on eranda leaves, giving rise to sweat, with ample thighs and loins, when making love, the peasant’s wife removes Kama’s fever—just as a poultice of hot sand, resting on eranda leaves, of heavy weight and causing sweating, reduces a fever when applied.