Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c11.58

v2.c11.58

This it is that for the lover means much, and it is through this that he can live—that I and she of the lovely thighs are on one stretch of land. When shall I tilt lightly upwards her lotus-like face, lit by its lovely teeth, and drink, as the sick man drinks the draught of life? When will the quivering breasts of the laughing one, pressing against one another, swelling, like unto the wine-palm's fruit, when will they but clasp me? Alas! the black-eyed one who has me to shelter her, can find no rescuer, like one that is shelterless. When at last will Sītā, the kind, she like a daughter of the gods, twine herself round my neck, filled with longing, and shed tears of joy? When shall I of a sudden cast off this dreadful pain, that comes of my separation from Sītā, like a sullied garment?" (Rām., iii, 58, 60–64; iv, 6.11 ff.; 27.30 ff.; v, 35.38 ff.; 36.40 ff.; 66.¹ ff.).