Shloka 17
Adhyaya 25 — Madālāsā’s Return, Royal Succession, and the First Teaching to Vikrānta
हासोऽस्थिसन्दर्शनमक्षियुग्ममत्युज्ज्वलं तर्जनमङ्गनायाः ।
कुचादिपीनं पिशितं घनं तत्स्थानं रतेः किं नरकं न योषित् ॥
hāso 'sthisandarśanam akṣiyugmam atyujjvalaṃ tarjanam aṅganāyāḥ / kucādipīnaṃ piśitaṃ ghanaṃ tat sthānaṃ rateḥ kiṃ narakaṃ na yoṣit
Das Lachen einer Frau ist nur ein Zeigen von Knochen; ihr sehr helles Augenpaar ist ein scharfer Stachel. Diese dichte Masse aus Fleisch, voll an Brüsten und dergleichen—wenn dies der Sitz der Begierde ist, ist die Frau dann nicht (auch) eine Hölle?
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FAQs
The verse is an anti-lust contemplation: it shocks the mind out of fascination by recalling bodily materiality, urging mastery over kāma rather than objectifying fixation.
Didactic/renunciatory counsel inside narrative; not pancalakṣaṇa cosmology or genealogy.
It functions as a meditative reversal (viparīta-bhāvanā): the attractive is re-seen as perishable constituents, weakening rāga and supporting inner freedom.