Hindu Medicine c11.10

c11.10

kissing) and that here (the organ he is caressing), like (a doe) wounded by a poisoned arrow!’ ” The two classic translators of the Upaniṣads, Paul Deussen (“Sechzig Upanishads des Veda,” 3. Auflage, Leipzig 1921, p. 515) and R. E. Hume (*The Thirteen Principal Upanishads*, p. 169) have somehow missed the ritualistic detail of this kāma-sūtra practice; Deussen, in translating “dem Wild gleich, das der Giftpfeil traf, mach rasend diese da auf mich,” and Hume, in rendering “distract this woman here in me, as if by poisoned arrow pierced.” The text, however, has “. . . māday-emām amūm mayi,” that is, “fac intoxicatam hanc (feminam), illam (vaginam) in me.”