Rasarnavasudhakara 2.251
English (machine translation) 2.251
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2.251
By taste, as in:
Hara, his composure somewhat shaken
like the ocean at the rising of the moon,
directed his eyes
toward Umā's face, whose lower lip was like a bimba fruit.
2.251.p1
(Kumārasambhava 3.67)
2.251.p2
Here, although before sexual enjoyment the taste of the lower lip is unknown and so cannot properly serve as a determinant for the aesthetic sentiment, nonetheless, the determinant status of that very taste imagined through fame is suggested by the phrase "whose lower lip was like a bimba fruit." Or rather, the Supreme Lord had tasted the bimba-like lip of Dākṣāyaṇī; through that very taste, his love arises for her even though she has met him in another birth.
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- Rasārṇavasudhākara — Siṃhabhūpāla, Sanskrit