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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
102 The Last Five Upangas
[ III. Lect. 4.
on account of her form, youth and beauty, Then her parents will give the daughter Soma, who will have completed infancy, will have become learned, matured to enjoy pleasures, and will have attained to youth, as a wife to Ratthakuda, his own sister's son, with a suitable dowry agreed upon. She will become his (Ratthakî da's) desired and beloved wife (and so forth, down to) like a box of valuables, will be carefully treated by him like earthen pots for oil ( which are carefully handled ) well-protected like a wooden box for keeping clothes ( which is well-covered), well-looked after and treasured like a box of gems ( which is also well-looked after and kept in sceret treasure ), so that cold (and so forth, down to) and various ailments may not overcome her.
130. Then that female Brahmin Somã, onjoing great sexual pleasures with Ratthakûda and giving birth to twins every year, will, at the end of sixteen years, give birth to thirty-two children in all. Then with some of those many children lying on her back, some asking to suckle, some attempting to stand and walk with the help of a wooden frame, some crawling on the ground, some walking, some stumbling, some seeking her
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