A History of Sanskrit Literature c14.s7.15

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c14.s7.15

‘ Her lip was red as the Bimba, black her hair, moonlike her face, lionlike her waist, gracious her aspect : so seemed she to unite all the gods in one.’ Here the epithets suggest the gods Sūrya, Kṛṣṇa, Soma, Hari, and Çiva. A biting attack on women's conduct as opposed to their beauty runs :

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