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The following are the kind of friends:—

• One who has played with you in the dust, i.e., in childhood.
• One who is bound by an obligation.
• One who is of the same disposition and fond of the same things.
• One who is a fellow student.
• One who is acquainted with your secrets and faults, and whose faults and secrets are also known to you.
• One who is a child of your nurse.
• One who is brought up with you.
• One who is an hereditary friend.

These friends should possess the following qualities:—

• They should tell the truth.
• They should not be changed by time.
• They should be favourable to your designs.
• They should be firm.
• [37]They should be free from covetousness.
• They should not be capable of being gained over by others.
• They should not reveal your secrets.

Charayana says that citizens form friendship with washermen, barbers, cowherds, florists, druggists, betel-leaf sellers, tavern keepers, beggars, Pithamardas, Vitas and Vidushekas, as also with the wives of all these people.

• A messenger should possess the following qualities:—
• Skilfulness.
• Boldness.
• Knowledge of the intention of men by their outward signs.
• Absence of confusion, i.e., no shyness.
• Knowledge of the exact meaning of what others do or say.
• Good manners.
• Knowledge of appropriate times and places for doing different things.
• Ingenuity in business.
• Quick comprehension.
• Quick application of remedies, i.e., quick and ready resources.
• And this part ends with a verse:—

The man who is ingenious and wise, who is accompanied by a friend, and who knows the intentions of others, as also the proper time and place for doing everything, can gain over, very easily, even a woman who is very hard to be obtained.

End of Part I.

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PART II.

OF SEXUAL UNION.

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CHAPTER I.

KINDS OF SEXUAL UNION ACCORDING TO

(a) DIMENSIONS.
(b) FORCE OF DESIRE OR PASSION.
(c) TIME.

Kinds of Union.

Man is divided into three classes, viz., the hare man, the bull man, and the horse man, according to the size of his lingam.

Woman also, according to the depth of her yoni, is either a female deer, a mare, or a female elephant.

There are thus three equal unions between persons of corresponding dimensions, and there are six unequal unions, when the dimensions do not correspond, or nine in all, as the following table shows:

[39]In these unequal unions, when the male exceeds the female in point of size, his union with a woman who is immediately next to him in size is called high union, and is of two kinds; while his union with the woman most remote from him in size is called the highest union, and is of one kind only. On the other hand when the female exceeds the male in point of size, her union with a man immediately next to her in size is called low union, and is of two kinds; while her union with a man most remote from her in size is called the lowest union, and is of one kind only.

In other words, the horse and mare, the bull and deer, form the high union, while the horse and deer form the highest union. On the female side, the elephant and bull, the mare and hare, form low unions, while the elephant and the hare make the lowest unions.

There are then, nine kinds of union according to dimensions. Amongst all these, equal unions are the best, those of a superlative degree, i.e., the highest and the lowest, are the worst, and the rest are middling, and with them the high[33] are better than the low.

There are also nine kinds of union according to the force of passion or carnal desire, as follows: