Page:The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana.djvu/82

 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, viz.:

Striking with the 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 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 arc all occasionally made use of.

Blows with the fist should be given on the back of the woman, which she is sitting on the lap of the man, and she