By Kshemendra, A.N.D. Haksar (Tr.)
ISBN-10: 0143415409
ISBN-13: 9780143415404
The god Shiva is totally seduced via Mohini, the mesmerizing lady shape assumed by way of the god Vishnu through the churning of the sea for nectar. A barber employs wit and wile and rumours of witchcraft to win his spouse again from the lustful attentions in their king. The celestial nymph Urvashi curses the Pandava prince Arjuna while he rejects her sexual advances. a girl stuck in adultery befools her elders with a spiritual ritual. a guy with a unpleasant lacking spouse insists however that she be recovered through his ruler who has an identical challenge.
sophisticated, colloquial, romantic, cynical, satirical via turns, those tales of erotic love, elegantly translated from the Sanskrit classics, make a sustained argument for the secular ends of lifetime of hope tempered with discrimination and delight with restraint.
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Ambalika had turned pale with fear at the sight of Vyasa who told her that her that her son would also be pale in colour. He informed his mother of the same and she then requested him for yet another son, to which he agreed. In time the younger princess was delivered of a pale-coloured boy. Meanwhile Satyavati had once again prepared her elder daughter-in-law for the ever-willing sage. Recalling his looks and smells, she did not comply with the queenly order, but instead sent to Vyasa a servant girl as pretty as herself, wearing her personal ornaments.
Seeing him desperately worried, she questioned him. On learning of the demon’s threat, she said, ‘I will dupe that demon. ”’ The brahman was pleased, and saying just that to the demon, brought it to his daughter. ‘Heal this wound of mine, good sir,’ she told the creature, and showed to it, in private, a precious part of her body. That fool kept applying ointments and suchlike to it but was quite unable to achieve any cure. Tired out after some days, it then placed the girl’s legs on its shoulders to inspect the secret spot and see why it would not heal.
Heal this wound of mine, good sir,’ she told the creature, and showed to it, in private, a precious part of her body. That fool kept applying ointments and suchlike to it but was quite unable to achieve any cure. Tired out after some days, it then placed the girl’s legs on its shoulders to inspect the secret spot and see why it would not heal. The demon then beheld what seemed a second open wound—actually her anus—beneath it. This threw it into confusion. ‘While one has yet to heal,’ it wondered, ‘another wound has appeared.
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