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c. 800 / India
Topography
Scarlet betel-nut juice
spattered about,
aloe paste
dashed here and there
in yellow streaks.
Richer stains—
impressions
of sandalwood oil,
red footprints
from the rouge on her feet.
Petals that
clung to her hair
have dropped in the
scattered folds—
every position
a woman took pleasure from
is told on these bed sheets.
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Amaru, from the Amarusataka. The poem is composed of one hundred stanzas describing the various phases of a woman's life and love.
Whenever a woman commits adultery with a man of a caste inferior to her husband’s, she shall be torn to pieces by dogs, and in some public place.
—The Mahabharata
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