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# Skandapurana 5.81.35

Skandapurāṇa 5.81.35

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [5.81.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.81.35)

anyonyaṃ maithunaṃ cakruḥ kāmabāṇaprapīḍitāḥ ..  
kuṣṭhinaṃ vyādhitaṃ vāpi sthaviraṃ vyaṃgameva ca ..  
apyetāḥ puruṣābhāve manyaṃte paṃcasāyakam .. 35 ..

> they perform intercourse with one another, tormented by the arrows of desire. / In the absence of a man, they regard even a leper, a diseased man, / an old man, or a crippled one as the Five-Arrowed God of Love.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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