Part
2 - Chapter 2
OF
THE EMBRACE
THIS
part of the Kama Shastra, which treats of
sexual union, is also called `Sixty-four' (Chatushshashti).
Some old authors say that it is called so,
because it contains sixty-four chapters.
Others are of opinion that the author of
this part being a person named Panchala, and
the person who recited the part of the Rig
Veda called Dashatapa, which contains
sixty-four verses, being also called
Panchala, the name `sixty-four' has been
given to the part of the work in honour of
the Rig Vedas. The followers of Babhravya
say on the other hand that this part
contains eight subjects, viz. the embrace,
kissing, scratching with the nails or
fingers, biting, lying down, making various
sounds, playing the part of a man, and the
Auparishtaka, or mouth congress. Each of
these subjects being of eight kinds, and
eight multiplied by eight being sixty-four,
this part is therefore named `sixty-four'.
But Vatsyayana affirms that as this part
contains also the following subjects, viz.
striking, crying, the acts of a man during
congress, the various kinds of congress, and
other subjects, the name `sixty-four' is
given to it only accidentally. As, for
instance, we say this tree is `Saptaparna',
or seven-leaved, this offering of rice is `Panchavarna',
or five-coloured, but the tree has not seven
leaves, neither has the rice five colours.
However
the part sixty-four is now treated of, and
the embrace, being the first subject, will
now be considered.
Now
the embrace which indicates the mutual love
of a man and woman who have come together is
of four kinds:
The
action in each case is denoted by the
meaning of the word which stands for it.
When
a man under some pretext or other goes in
front or alongside of a woman and touches
her body with his own, it is called the
`touching embrace'.
When
a woman in a lonely place bends down, as if
to pick up something, and pierces, as it
were, a man sitting or standing, with her
breasts, and the man in return takes hold of
them, it is called a `piercing embrace'.
The
above two kinds of embrace take place only
between persons who do not, as yet, speak
freely with each other.
When
two lovers are walking slowly together,
either in the dark, or in a place of public
resort, or in a lonely place, and rub their
bodies against each other, it is called a
`rubbing embrace'.
When
on the above occasion one of them presses
the other's body forcibly against a wall or
pillar, it is called a `pressing embrace'.
These
two last embraces are peculiar to those who
know the intentions of each other.
At
the time of the meeting the four following
kinds of embrace are used:
Jataveshtitaka,
or the twining of a creeper.
Vrikshadhirudhaka,
or climbing a tree.
Tila-Tandulaka,
or the mixture of sesamum seed with rice.
Kshiraniraka,
or milk and water embrace.
.
Swami Veet Chintan T'Zorba-Krsna
Jyotish
Shastracharya
& Vedic Astrologer of India
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