Rasarnavasudhakara 2.516

English (machine translation) 2.516

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2.516

For example:
“O heroic King Śrī Siṃha! While drawing decorative fish with musk upon their two cheeks,
the bold women in your harem, secretly writing your praises on their breasts out of excessive devotion,
promptly produce shame in the bad kings who are your enemies,
under the pretext of bending down before that co-wife, the royal fortune.”

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Here, the simultaneous occurrence in one place of the erotic and odious sentiments residing in the rival heroes is not a defect, because they are subordinate to the heroic sentiment residing in the hero.

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[Objection:] But surely here, the disgust with their own lives felt by the enemies—produced by inscribing the hero's eulogy upon their own chests, which is equivalent to bringing about an end to their lives—is stimulated by the proximity of their harem women, augmented by detachment, wretchedness, and despair inferred from shame, and manifested by mental self-contempt inferred from these; and this is understood to nourish the heroic sentiment defined as protecting those who take refuge, which resides in the hero. But the erotic sentiment residing in the rival hero does not assist the heroic sentiment of the hero.
[Reply:] To this it is replied: such erotic diversions can occur only for rival kings whose kingdoms have been preserved by the gracious glance of the hero, not otherwise; thus the assistance of that erotic sentiment to the hero's heroic sentiment is manifested through their familiarity with wearing his titles of honor and through the use of the word 'co-wife, the royal fortune'.

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Rasārṇavasudhākara — Siṃhabhūpāla, Sanskrit