Brahma Vaivarta Purana Chapter 23:41-50

Brahma Vaivarta Purana

Tilakottamä-bali-putrayor brahma-çäpa-prastäva

Bali's Son and Tilakottamä Are Cursed by a Brähmana

Chapter 23: Verse 41-50

ENGLISH TRANSLATION 41. By going on pilgrimage one is purified of the sin of seeing an unchaste woman. By bathing in a holy stream one is purified of the great sin of touching an unchaste woman. 42.An unchaste woman's charity, vows, mantras, demigod worship, and bathing in holy streams are all useless. She lives on this earth in vain. 43.As far as I can understand them, I have described to you the inscrutable ways of an unchaste woman. O Närada, now please hear the conversation of Bali's son and Tilottamä. 44.Awakening a little from his stunned condition, Bali's son gazed at the unchaste woman. Tortured by lust, he approached her. 45.She looked at him with crooked eyes. Her breasts and hips were very full. She shyly and playfully covered part of her face with her sari. He spoke to her. 46.Sähasika said: O beautiful one, who are you? Whose daughter are you? Whose beloved wife are you? Where are you going all alone? O girl with the beautiful eyebrows, who is the saintly and handsome man you are hurrying to meet? 47.O beautiful one, to enjoy with you a man must perform a kalpa of austerities. Please go to whomever you are going. Just accept me as your slave. 48.I yearn to enjoy sex with you. You yearn to enjoy sex with me. Paying with sex, purchase me as your slave. O girl filled with lust, please enjoy sex with me. 49.Fate orders our embrace. O beloved, who will stop our embrace? 50.O beautiful one, please smile and speak words like nectar. Take me to a secluded place and tie me up with the vine-ropes of your arms.