Encyclopaedia of Sanskrit subhāṣitas 287

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When her garment was pulled from her body, she hastily concealed her breasts with both arms; / when the skirt on her hips was pulled away, she pressed her two thighs tightly together; / when my eyes were fixed on the base of her navel, she, whose body bent with shame, extinguished the lamp—its flame trembling from the wind of her breath—with a blue lotus from her ear.