Brahma Vaivarta Purana Chapter 14:31-40

Brahma Vaivarta Purana

Vrksarjuna-bhanjana

The Breaking of the Arjuna Tree

Chapter 14: Verse 31-40

ENGLISH TRANSLATION 31.Sri Narayana Rsi said: One day Kuvera’s son Nalakuvara, who was handsome and glorious, went to the Nandana gardens to enjoy with the apsara Rambha. 32.-33.In a beautiful and secluded lake shore flower garden fragrant with flower breezes, he made a bed of flowers with silken sheets, jewel lamps, fragrant ointments of sandal, aguru, musk and kunkuma, and with flowers everywhere. 34.He took Rambha there and they enjoyed the eight kinds of amorous pastimes, beginning with viparita, to their heart’s content. 35.In that place they enjoyed six kinds of kisses and three kinds of embraces. 36.Expert in amorous pastimes and learned in the Kama-sastra, he took her from the water to the land, and from the land to the water, enjoying with her pastimes of amorous scratching and biting. 37.At that moment Devala Muni saw Nalakuvara enjoying these amorous pleasures with naked, dishevelled, buxom, broad-hipped Rambha. 38.Her limbs scratched and bitten and the hairs of her body erect, she gazed, smiling with pleasure, at the Lord of her life, and he gazed, smiling with pleasure, at her. 39.The sage glanced at Rambha who, her eyebrows crooked and her cheeks splendid with earrings, was filled with lusty desires,... 40. ...who was decorated with jewel bracelets, armlets, anklets,...