Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c21.77

v2.c21.77

P. 445, 1st strophe: (“Loud cries”). The text is in disorder. The second half of 67.33 must be put before the first at least. But what is still more likely is that for vikroçati Yajñasenī we must read: vikroça hi (vikroçahi? vikroça tu?), Yajñaseni (or: vikroçatu Yajñasenī). Cp. viii, 86.18. The passage in other ways, too, will thus be far better: “Then spoke he to Kṛṣṇā, hotly holding her fast by her ravishing black locks: ‘Cry to Kṛṣṇa, Jiṣṇu, Hari, Nara, That he may save thee, Yajñasenī.’” The second half of the trishṭubh in the text has probably been thoughtlessly transplanted here from 68.46. Duḥçāsana uvāca must now naturally be struck out. K., indeed, has not got this at all (89.45-46).