बृहत्संहिता (आचार्य वराहमिहिर - स्थापत्य, खगोल, मौसम व जल विज्ञान)

Adh. LXXVIII. Sl. 15-18.] अष्टसप्ततितमोऽध्यायः 617
Sloka 14.—A woman in the company of her lover
in privacy should not indulge in boorish talk (or decorate
herself with rustic colours), not be unclean in body, not
speak of unseemly parts of the body, nor mention other
subjects; for mind is the birth-place of Love whose body
was burnt by Hara.
श्वासं मनुष्येण समं त्यजन्ती बाहूपधानस्तनदानदक्षा ।
सुगन्धकेशा सुसमीपरागा सुप्तेऽनुसुप्ता प्रथमं विबुद्धा ॥१५॥
Sloka 15.—A woman who breathes in unison with
her lover, is ready to make her arms a pillow for him,
offers skilfully her breasts to him, has her hair finely
scented, goes to sleep after he has fallen asleep and
wakes up before him, has sincere and abiding love for
him.
दुष्टस्वभावाः परिवर्जनीया विमर्दकालेषु च न क्षमा याः ।
यासामसृग्वासितनीलपीतमाताम्रवर्णं च न ताः प्रशस्ताः ॥१६॥
या स्वप्नशीला बहुरक्तपित्ता प्रवाहिनी वातकफातिरक्ता ।
महाशना खेदयुताङ्गदुष्टा या ह्रस्वकेशी पलितान्विता वा ॥१७॥
मांसानि यस्याश्च चलन्ति नार्या महोदरा खिखिमिनी च या स्यात्
स्त्रीलक्षणे याः कथिताश्च पापास्ताभिर्न कुर्यात्सह कामधर्मम् ॥१८॥
Slokas 16-18.—Those women who have a wicked
nature, and who are impatient during coitus, ought to be
shunned. Inauspicious are those whose blood is dark, blue,
yellow, or slightly copper-red. A woman that is sleepy,
has too much blood and bile, has a dripping (burning)
organ, is of a rheumatic and phlegmatic constitution,
gluttonous, sweaty, with deformed limbs, short-haired,
and with (prematurely) grey hair; further, one whose
muscles are flaccid, who has a pot-belly and who pro-
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