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Kamasutra 7.2.49

Kāmasūtra 7.2.49

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7.2.49

śravaṇapriyaṃgukātailena dukūlasarpanirmokeṇa vartyā dīpaṃ prajvālya pārśve dīrghīkṛtāni kāṣṭhāni sarpavad dṛśyante/

(q) If a lamp, trimmed with oil extracted from the shrawana and priyangu plants, its wick being made of cloth and the slough of the skins of snakes, is lighted, and long pieces of wood placed near it, those pieces of wood will resemble so many snakes.

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

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