Suktimuktavali 73

73

Now the section on the nature of fortune. / She goes downward like a river, completely obstructs consciousness like sleep, / fosters intoxication like liquor, produces blindness like smoke, / touches fickleness like lightning, brings thirst to blazing expansion like a forest fire, / and wanders about unrestrained like an unchaste woman—such is Kamalā. (73)