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² Cp. R. Schmidt, *Ind. Erotik*, 190-193. The Gaṅgā rushing down from the sky, likewise is seen as a tipsy woman (iii, 109.10). Cp. e.g. iii, 187.44. Even the so-called lifeless Nature feels the spell of intoxicants on lovely lips; according to Indian poetic convention, the bakula (or kesava) cannot bloom unless its stem has been besprinkled with such moisture from the mouth of a young and pretty woman (e.g. Raghuv., ix, 33; xix, 12; Lokaprakāça, *Ind. Stud.*, vol. 18,