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SECTION III
The days of greatest enjoyment for the Four Classes
Having thus laid down the four classes of womankind, Kalyana Malla, the arch-poet, proceeds to give a table of the time in which each order derives the greatest amount of pleasure from the venereal rite. These periods must be learnt by heart, and students will remember that on the other days not specified, no amount
[10. "Elephant"-woman, because the animal being called the "handed one," from the use of the trunk, and Hastini corresponds with Karami, from kara, a hand. She is "mulier nigris dignissima barris," and of the lymphatic or lowest temperament. These divisions represent, we have noted, roughly and unscientifically, the four European temperaments, nervous, sanguine, bilious and lymphatic. In a future chapter, the three Hindu temperaments will be discussed.]
of congress will satisfy passions. Read, then, and master the elements.
Table[11]
|
Pratipada
1st day |
Dvitiya
2nd day |
Chaturthi
4th day |
Panchami
5th day |
Satisfy the Padmini |
|
Shasbati
6th day |
Ashtami
8th day |
Dashami
10th day |
Dwadashi
12th day |
Satisfy the Chatrini |
|
Tritiya
3rd day |
Saptami
7th day |
Ekadashi
11th day |
Trayodasi
13th day |
Satisfy the Shankhini |
|
Navami
9th day |
Caturdashi
14th day |
Purnima
Full Moon |
Amavasya
New Moon |
Satisfy the Hastini |
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