Thursday, December 15, 2005

These happy maidens reaching adulthood - Kalidasa

Ritu Samhaaram of Kalidasa
Verse 5-10

These happy maidens reaching adulthood
Are full of desires for lovemaking.
They share stimulating hard drinks
With their lovers in the evenings.
Petals of lotus flowers placed
In the drinks for fragrance,
Undulate, when they let out sighs
Of pleasure of coming lovemaking.

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Original in Sanskrit

sugandhi nishvaasa vikampita utpalam manoharam kaama rati prabodhakam |
nishaasu hR^iSTaaH saha kaamibhiH striyaH pibanti madyam madaniiyam uttamam || 10

Literal translation by Desirajhu Rao

In nights the gladdened women of age, desirous of lovemaking are consuming best, heart-stealing, excitant, and stimulant hard drinks along with their lovers, in which drinks lotus petal are placed for fragrance, and which lotus petals are undulated by the richly scented lusty suspirations of those women... [5-10]

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