Agnipurana 243
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Samudra said: / Praised is a woman whose limbs are entirely beautiful, who walks like an elephant in rut, / who has heavy thighs and hips, and whose eyes are like an impassioned pigeon;
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who has very dark hair, a slender body, hairless limbs, and is charming;
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[Footnote]
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1 [Variant reading:] 'An auspicious woman' in ja.. [Page 386]
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whose feet touch the ground evenly, and likewise whose breasts are close together;
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whose navel curls clockwise, whose pudendum is shaped like an aśvattha leaf, / whose ankles are hidden by the middle [flesh], whose navel measures a thumb's width;
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whose belly does not hang down; she who is rough with body hair is not auspicious; / she who is not named after a constellation, tree, or river, nor constantly fond of quarreling;
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not greedy, not foul-mouthed; an auspicious woman is honored by gods and others; / with cheeks resembling madhūka flowers, neither veined nor hairy;
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not with joined and crooked eyebrows, holding her husband as her life, beloved of her husband. / Even one without marks has good marks; where there are good forms, there are good qualities.
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She whose little toe does not touch the ground brings death itself.
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Thus ends the two hundred and forty-third chapter, entitled 'Characteristics of Women', in the great Agni Purāṇa.
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Now begins the two hundred and forty-fourth chapter.
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Characteristics of Fly-whisks and Other Regalia
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- Agnipurāṇa (Nag Publishers edition, Delhi) — Sanskrit
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- Agnipurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit