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Kamasutra 2.4.12

Kāmasūtra 2.4.12

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Sanskrit

2.4.12

taiḥ suniyamitair hanudeśe stanayor adhare vā laghukaraṇam anudgatalekhaṃ sparśamātrajananād romāñ cakaramante saṃnipātavardhamānaśabdam ācchuritakam//

(1) When a person presses the chin, the breasts, the lower lip, or the jaghana of another so softly that no scratch or mark is left, but only the hair on the body becomes erect from the touch of the nails, and the nails themselves make a sound, it is called a "sounding or pressing with the nails."

Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana

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