Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c21.75

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P. 431. So, too, to Iseult one who likewise is not in love with her says: “As this day raises daylight from the dead Might not this face the life of a dead man?” Swinburne, “Tristram of Lyonesse,” Poems, Lond., 1904, p. 20.—In K. several verses have been interpolated which explain v, 116.2 ff., and give further happiness-bringing charms of woman. We find: the two hips, the forehead, the thighs, and the nose—these six arched (unnata, 116.3). On the other hand strophe 7 states: chest, neighbourhood of the girdle (kaksha, that is, probably, hips, pubic region, and buttocks), nails, nose, shoulders, and the region between them (or: loins? amsatrika)—these are the six unnata. According to str. 6 these must be long: jaws, eyes, arms, thighs, nose.