1) a woman, clinging to a man as a creeper twines round a tree, bends his head down to hers with the desire of kissing him and embraces him, and looks lovingly towards him, it is called an embrace like the ‘twining of a creeper’.
2)
When a
woman, having placed one of her feet on the foot of her feet on the foot of her
lover, and the other on one of his thighs, passes one of her arms round his
back, and the other on his shoulders, makes slightly the wounds of singing and
cooing, and wishes, as it were, to climb up to him in order to have a kiss, it
is called an embrace like the ‘climbing of a tree’.
These two kinds of embrace take place when the lover
is standing.
3)
When
lovers lie on a bed, and embrace each other so closely that the arms and thighs
of the one are encircled by the arms and thighs of the other, and, are, as it
were, rubbing up against them, this is called an embrace like the ‘mixture of
sesamum seed with rice’.
4)
When a
man and a woman are much in love with each other and not thinking of any pain or
hurt, embrace each other as if they were entering into each other’s bodies
either while the woman is sitting on the lap of the man, or in front of him, or
on a bed, then it is called an embrace like a ‘mixture of milk and water’.
These two kinds of embrace take place at the time of
sexual union.
Babhravya has thus related to us the above eight
kinds of embraces.
Suvarnanabha moreover gives us four ways of embracing
simple members of the body, which are: the embrace of the thighs; the embrace of
the jaghana i.e. the part of the body from the navel downwards to the thighs;
the embrace of the breasts; the embrace of the forehead.
1)
When one
of two lovers presses forcibly one or both of the thighs of the other between
his or her own it is called the ‘embrace of thighs’.
2)
When a
man presses the jaghana or middle part of the woman’s body against his own,
and mounts upon her to practice, either scratching with the nail or finger, or
biting, or striking, or kissing, the hair of the woman being loose and flowing,
it is called the ‘embrace of the jaghana’.
3)
When a
man places his breast between the breasts of a woman and pressed her with it, it
is called the ‘embrace of the breasts’.
4)
When
either of the lovers touches the mouth, the eyes and the forehead of the other
with his or her own, it is called the ‘embrace of the forehead’.