VIII Of the various modes of striking, and appropriate sounds 

Sexual intercourse can be compared to a quarrel, on account of the contrarieties of love and its tendency to dispute.  The place of striking with passion is the body, and on the body the special places are: the shoulders; the head; the space between the breasts; the back; the jaghana or middle part of the body; the sides.  Striking is of four kinds: striking with back of the hand; striking with the fingers a little contracted; striking with the fist; striking with the open palm of the hand.

On account of its causing pain, striking gives rise to the hissing sound, which is of various kinds, and to the eight kinds of crying, viz. The sound of Hin; the thundering sound, the cooing sound; the weeping sound; the sound Phut; the sound Phat; the sound Sut; the sound Plat.    

Besides these, there are also words having a meaning, such as ‘mother’, and those that are expressive of prohibition, sufficiency, desire of liberation, pain or praise, and to which may be added sounds like those of the dove, the cuckoo, the green pigeon, the parrot, the bee, the sparrow, the flamingo, the duck, and the quail, which are all occasionally made use of. 

Blows with the fist should be given on the back of the woman, while she is sitting on the lap of the man, and she should give blows in return, abusing the man as if she were angry, and making the cooing and weeping sounds.  While the woman is engaged in congress, the space between the breasts should be struck with the back of the hand, slowly at first, and then proportionately to the in creasing excitement, until the end.  

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