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# Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c20.92

Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c20.92

- **Language:** English

### [v2.c20.92](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c20.92)

“There hither came a chaṣte youth wearing tresses,  
Truly not small, not too tall, of good understanding,  
Golden his colour, long the lotus eye,  
Self-shining like one of the gods,¹  
Of perfect shape, beaming like the sun,  
His eyes soft and black, his skin bright-gleaming.  
Blue-black and shining his long tresses,  
Bound in a golden braid, and sweetly scented.  
On his neck something, shaped like the runnel,²  
Gleams, like lightning in the sky;  
Two globes he has beneath the neck,  
That have no hair, and ravish high the heart.  
Thin is his body by the navel,  
And his hips over-great in girth;  
From his baṣt garb the girdle gleams forth,  
Of gold made, just as mine.  
Another thing, wonderful to behold,  
Shines on his feet, and sounds;  
The hands, too, are twined about by two skeins,  
Sharp-tinkling, like unto my rose-wreath.  
And when he moves, these gleam  
Like in the pond the joy-drunken swans.  
His baṣt garment is a wonder to behold.  
Ah! mine here is not so fair and splendid.  
His face is a wondrous sight to behold.  
And what he says refreshes, as it were, the soul;  
His voice rings like the cock-koïl’s,  
My heart quaked within me, as I listened to it.

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