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The people of Saketa do with these women every kind of mouth congress, while the people
of Nagara do not practise this, but do every other thing.
The people of the Shurasena country, on the southern bank of the Jumna, do everything
without any hesitation, for they say that women being naturally unclean, no one can be
certain about their character, their purity, their conduct, their practices, their confidences, or
their speech. They are not however on this account to be abandoned, because religious law,
on the authority of which they are reckoned pure, lays down that the udder of a cow is clean
at the time of milking, though the mouth of a cow, and also the mouth of her calf, are
considered unclean by the Hindoos. Again a dog is clean when he seizes a deer in hunting,
though food touched by a dog is otherwise considered very unclean. A bird is clean when it
causes a fruit to fall from a tree by pecking at it, though things eaten by crows and other
birds are considered unclean. And the mouth of a woman is clean for kissing and such like
things at the time of sexual intercourse. Vatsyayana moreover thinks that in all these things
connected with love, everybody should act according to the custom of his country, and his
own inclination.
There are also the following verses on the subject:
`The male servants of some men carry on the mouth congress with their masters. It is also
practised by some citizens, who know each other well, among themselves. Some women of
the harem, when they are amorous, do the acts of the mouth on the yonis of one another, and
some men do the same thing with women. The way of doing this (i.e. of kissing the yoni)
should be known from kissing the mouth. When a man and woman lie down in an inverted
order, i.e. with the head of the one towards the feet of the other and carry on this congress, it
is called the "congress of a crow".'
For the sake of such things courtesans abandon men possessed of good qualities, liberal and
clever, and become attached to low persons, such as slaves and elephant drivers. The
Auparishtaka, or mouth congress, should never be done by a learned Brahman, by a minister
that carries on the business of a state, or by a man of good reputation, because though the
practice is allowed by the Shastras, there is no reason why it should be carried on, and need
only be practised in particular cases. As for instance, the taste, and the strength, and the
digestive qualities of the flesh of dogs are mentioned in works on medicine, but it does not
therefore follow that it should be eaten by the wise. In the same way there are some men,
some places and some times, with respect to which these practices can be made use of.
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