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50 passagesनातिप्रसङ्गः प्रमदासु कार्यो नेच्छेद् बलं स्त्रीषु विवर्धमानम् । अतिप्रसक्तैः पुरुषैर् यतस् ताः क्रीडन्ति काकैर् इव लून-पक्षैः ॥
One should not become excessively attached to women, nor should one wish for their strength to increase. For, when men become excessively attached, those women play with them as crows with clipped wings.
सुमुखेन वदन्ति वगुना प्रहरन्त्य् एव शितेन चेतसा । मधु तिष्ठति वाचि योषितां हृदये हालाहलं महद्-विषम् ॥
They speak with a pleasant face, but strike with a sharpened mind. Honey remains on the speech of women, while in their hearts there is great, deadly poison.
अत एव निपीयतेऽधरो हृदयं मुष्टिभिर् एव ताड्यते । पुरुषैः सुख-लेश-वञ्चितैर् मधु-लुब्धैः कमलं यथालिभिः ॥
Therefore the lip is sucked, while the heart is struck with fists; men deprived of even a little happiness and greedy for honey act like bees toward a lotus.
अपि च- आवर्तः संशयानाम् अविनय-भवनं पत्तनं साहसानां दोषाणां संनिधानं कपट-शत-मयं क्षेत्रम् अप्रत्ययानाम् । स्वर्ग-द्वारस्य विघ्नं नरक-पुर-मुखं सर्व-माया-करण्डं स्त्री-यन्त्रं केन सृष्टं विषम् अमृत-मयं प्राणि-लोकस्य पाशः ॥
Moreover: A whirlpool of doubts, an abode of misconduct, a city of rash actions, a gathering place of faults, a field made of a hundred deceits, and a ground of distrust; an obstacle at heaven’s gate, the mouth of the city of hell, a casket of every illusion, a woman-device—by whom was this created? It is poison made of nectar, a snare for the world of living beings.
कार्कश्यं स्तनयोर् दृशोस् तरलतालीकं मुखे श्लाघ्यते कौटिल्यं कच-संचये च वचने मान्द्यं त्रिके स्थूलता । भीरुत्वं हृदये सदैव कथितं माया-प्रयोगः प्रिये यासां दोष-गणो गुणो मृग-दृशां ताः स्युर् नराणां प्रियाः ॥
Hardness in the breasts is praised; fickleness in the eyes and falsehood in the mouth, crookedness in the mass of hair, dullness in speech, stoutness in the hip-region, timidity in the heart, and the practice of deceit toward a beloved are always spoken of. Those doe-eyed women whose collection of faults is a virtue become dear to men.
Panchatantra
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