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Ashtangasamgraha 9.49

Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha 9.49

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9.49

grāmyadharmapravṛttau tu rajasvalāmaniṣṭāmaniṣṭācārāmaśastāmatisthūlāmatikṛśāṃ garbhiṇīṃ sūtikāmanuttānāṃ vikṛtāṅgāṃ gaṇikāmaprajasaṃ duṣṭayonimanyayonimanyastriyaṃ viśeṣācca vayovarṇavṛddhāṃ sagotrāṃ gurumitrabandhubhṛtyapatnīṃ varṇinīṃ tathā caityacatvaracatuṣpathopavanaśmaśānāghātasalilauṣadhadvijagurusuranṛpālayeṣvahani gosarge madhyandine 'rddharātrau parveṣvanaṅge pipāsurapraṇītasaṅkalpo vā na gacchet |

na ca viparītavyavāye yojayet |

viśeṣeṇa cātivyāyatāṃ garbhiṇīṃ navaprasūtāmṛtumatīṃ saṃvṛtayoniṃ ca |

mūrddhābhighātaṃ ca pariharet |

na ca niṣekābhimukhaṃ śukraṃ dhārayediti |

manaḥśarirasthitimātrameva vyavāyaṃ seveta |

na tatparaḥ syāditi ||

tvagelāmaricārdhāṃśamaṣṭāṅgalavaṇaṃ hitam |

srotoviśudhyagnikaraṃ kaphaprāye madātyaye ||

dhūpadhūmāñjanābhyaṅgapradehapariṣecanam ||

In undertaking the practice of village life (sexual intercourse), however, one should not approach a woman who is menstruating, disliked, of improper conduct, inauspicious, excessively obese, excessively emaciated, pregnant, newly delivered, not lying on her back, deformed in limbs, a courtesan, barren, having a diseased vagina, of another species, or another's wife; and especially one who is advanced in age or caste, of the same lineage, the wife of a teacher, friend, relative, or servant, or a female ascetic; likewise, one should not go [to her] at a shrine, public square, crossroads, pleasure grove, cremation ground, place of slaughter, water, [near] medicinal herbs, or in the dwellings of twice-borns, teachers, gods, or kings; by day, at the time of cow-release (early dawn), at midday, at midnight, on sacred festival days, or in unnatural orifices; nor if thirsty or with an unsettled mind. / And one should not engage in inverted copulation. / And especially with one who is excessively stretched, pregnant, newly delivered, in her fertile period, or has a constricted vagina. / And one should avoid injury to the head. / And one must not retain semen when it is about to be ejaculated. / One should engage in sexual intercourse only for the preservation of mind and body; / One should not be obsessed with it. / Eight-ingredient salt with half parts of cinnamon bark, cardamom, and black pepper is beneficial; / It purifies bodily channels and stimulates digestive fire in alcoholism predominantly caused by kapha. / Incense, medicinal smoke, collyrium, inunction, poultice, and pouring of liquids.

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