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mother had taken the lovely Ska upon her lap and Sita had granted to her narrow
-nosed husband the full enjoyment of wedded bliss. The heavy summer had
passed, and now the rainy season, covering the sky with floods of cloud, the
earth ...
mother had taken the lovely Ska upon her lap and Sita had granted to her narrow
-nosed husband the full enjoyment of wedded bliss. The heavy summer had
passed, and now the rainy season, covering the sky with floods of cloud, the
earth ...
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I should not have dared to assert it, when your present body was still mine and
slept at Sita's side. For it was not that body she really embraced, as I learned to
my sorrow when she muttered in her sleep. Instead it was the one I now call my
own ...
I should not have dared to assert it, when your present body was still mine and
slept at Sita's side. For it was not that body she really embraced, as I learned to
my sorrow when she muttered in her sleep. Instead it was the one I now call my
own ...
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I should not know what we could still have to seek in the flesh, since both of us
have gratified our desires and slept at Sita's side. My body could rejoice in her in
the consciousness of your head and yours in the consciousness of mine, as she ...
I should not know what we could still have to seek in the flesh, since both of us
have gratified our desires and slept at Sita's side. My body could rejoice in her in
the consciousness of your head and yours in the consciousness of mine, as she ...
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Nutzerbericht - fieldnotes - LibraryThingThis folkloric, Hindu-light treatment of desire, loyalty and identity lacks the craft, gravity and heft of other Thomas Mann novels. His few prose outbursts in description of beauty or deity seem ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
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Andhaka Anton Janson bath bathing-place beauty Bermann-Fischer Verlag Bhavabhuti blind bliss body Brahman breast called cried death DEATH IN VENICE deed desire dream embraced eyes face father feast feel fire Fischer Verlag flesh flowers friend-body Garga goat-nose goddess Goldfly H. T. Lowe-Porter hand happiness head and limbs headpiece heart hermit hips holy honour husband husband-body hushed Indra kadamba tree Kamadamana listen live look lovely Sita lucky-calf lock lust Maya Mother mountain mustard oil my-feeling ness Nirvana Novel Berlin once pale polyandry round sacrifice Samsara sandalwood sense Shri Shrida shrine sight Sita's Siyat Ska's soft soul speak spirit stood stout arms Sumantra sword swung tell things thou thought tion Tonio Kröger took Translated by H. T. TRANSPOSED HEADS tree turned unpeopled void Vedas voice wedded Welfare of Cows womb words yearning youth