Part
2 - Chapter 10
OF
THE WAY HOW TO BEGIN AND HOW TO END THE
CONGRESS. DIFFERENT KINDS OF CONGRESS AND
LOVE QUARRELS
IN
the pleasure-room, decorated with flowers,
and fragrant with perfumes, attended by his
friends and servants, the citizen should
receive the woman, who will come bathed and
dressed, and will invite her to take
refreshment and to drink freely. He should
then seat her on his left side, and holding
her hair, and touching also the end and knot
of her garment, he should gently embrace her
with his right arm. They should then carry
on an amusing conversation on various
subjects, and may also talk suggestively of
things which would be considered as coarse,
or not to be mentioned generally in society.
They may then sing, either with or without
gesticulations, and play on musical
instruments, talk about the arts, and
persuade each other to drink. At last when
the woman is overcome with love and desire,
the citizen should dismiss the people that
may be with him, giving them flowers,
ointments, and betel leaves, and then when
the two are left alone, they should proceed
as has been already described in the
previous chapters.
Such
is the beginning of sexual union. At the end
of the congress, the lovers with modesty,
and not looking at each other, should go
separately to the washing-room. After this,
sitting in their own places, they should eat
some betel leaves, and the citizen should
apply with his own hand to the body of the
woman some pure sandal wood ointment, or
ointment of some other kind. He should then
embrace her with his left arm, and with
agreeable words should cause her to drink
from a cup held in his own hand, or he may
give her water to drink. They can then eat
sweetmeats, or anything else, according to
their likings and may drink fresh juice,
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soup, gruel, extracts of meat, sherbet, the
juice of mango fruits, the extract of the
juice of the citron tree mixed with sugar,
or anything that may be liked in different
countries, and known to be sweet, soft, and
pure. The lovers may also sit on the terrace
of the palace or house, and enjoy the
moonlight, and carry on an agreeable
conversation. At this time, too, while the
woman lies in his lap, with her face towards
the moon, the citizen should show her the
different planets, the morning star, the
polar star, and the seven Rishis, or Great
Bear.
This
is the end of sexual union.
Congress
is of the following kinds:
Loving
congress
Congress of subsequent love
Congress of artificial love
Congress of transferred love
Congress like that of eunuchs
Deceitful congress
Congress of spontaneous love
When
a man and a woman, who have been in love
with each other for some time, come together
with great difficulty, or when one of the
two returns from a journey, or is reconciled
after having been separated on account of a
quarrel, then congress is called the `loving
congress'. It is carried on according to the
liking of the lovers, and as long as they
choose.
When
two persons come together, while their love
for each other is still in its infancy,
their congress is called the `congress of
subsequent love'.
When
a man carries on the congress by exciting
himself by means of the sixty-four ways,
such as kissing, etc., etc., or when a man
and a woman come together, though in reality
they are both attached to different persons,
their congress is then called `congress of
artificial love'. At this time all the ways
and means mentioned in the Kama Shastra
should be used.
When
a man, from the beginning to the end of the
congress, though having connection with the
woman, thinks all the time that he is
enjoying another one whom he loves, it is
called the `congress of transferred love'.
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