PART 3
And now must be described the various ways of Nakhadana, that is, of titillating and scratching with the nails.
As it will not be understood what places are properest for this kind of dalliance, it should be explained as a preliminary that there are eleven parts upon which pressure may be exerted with more or less force.
These are:
1. the neck
2. the hands
3. both thighs
4. both breasts
5. the back
6. the sides
7. both axillae
8. the whole chest or bosom
9. both hips
10. the Mons Veneris and all the parts about the Yoni
11. both the checks
Furthermore, it is necessary to learn the times and seasons when this style of manipulation is advisable.
These are:
1. when there is anger in the mind of the woman
2. at the time of first enjoying her or of taking her virginity
3. when going to separate for a short time
4. when about journeying to a foreign and distant country
5. when a great pecuniary loss has been sustained
6. when excited with desire of congress
7. at the season of Virati, that is to say, when there is no Rati, or furor venereus (“Virati” usually signifies being freed or refraining from carnal and worldly desires and passions; the extinction of earthly affections, and so forth). At such times the nails should always be applied to the proper places.
The nails, when in good condition and properest, for use, are without spots and lines, clean, bright, convex, hard, and unbroken. Wise men have given in the Shastras these six qualities of the nails.
There are seven different ways of applying the nails, which may be remembered by the Mandalaka or oblong formula on the following page:
1. Churit-nakhadana is setting the nails in such a way upon the cheeks, lower lip and breasts, without leaving any marks, but causing horripilation, till the woman’s body-hair bristles up, and a shudder passes all over the limbs (The European superstition is, that when horripilation takes place without apparent cause, a person is passing over the spot where the shudderer will be buried. This idea can hardly exist amongst a people who sensibly burn their dead in fixed places, far removed from the haunts of the living; and amongst Muslims, as well as Hindus, the “goose flesh,” as we call it in our homely way, is a sign of all the passions).
2. Ardhachandra-nakhadana is effected by impressing with the nails upon the neck and breasts a curved mark, which resembles a half-moon (Ardhachandra).
3. Mandalaka is applying the nails to the face for some time, and indeed until a sign is left upon it.
4. Tarunabhava or Rekha (a line) is the name given by men conversant with the Kamashastra to nail-marks longer than two or three finger-breadths on the woman’s head, thighs and breasts.
5. The Mayurapada (“peacock’s foot” or claw) is made by placing the thumb upon the nipple, and the four fingers upon the breast adjacent, at the same time pressing the nails till the mark resembles the trail of the peacock, which he leaves when walking upon mud.
6. Shasha-pluta, or the “hooping of a hair”, is the mark made upon the darker part of the breast when no other portion is affected.
7. Anvartha-nakhadana is a name applied to the three deep marks or scratches made by the nails of the first three fingers on the back, the breasts and the parts about the Yoni. This Nakhadana or unguiculation is highly proper when going abroad to a distant country, as it serves for a keep-sake and a token of remembrance.
The voluptuary, by applying the nails as above directed with love and affection, and driven wild by the fury of passion, affords the greatest comfort to the sexual desires of the woman; in fact, there is nothing, perhaps, which is more delightful to both husband and wife than the skilful use of unguiculation.
Furthermore, it is advisable to master the proper mode of morsication or biting. It is said by persons who are absorbed in the study of sexual intercourse, that the teeth should be used to the same places where the nails are applied with the exception, however, of the eyes, the upper lip, and the tongue.
Moreover, the teeth should be pressed until such time as the woman begins to exclaim, “Hu! Hu!” after which enough has been done.
The teeth to be preferred in the husband, are those whose colour is somewhat “rosy” (“Rosy teeth” suggest a resemblance to our “curly teeth,” popularly associated with straight hair. The author, however, is right according to the most modern and the best authorities, in asserting that dead white is a bad colour, liable to caries, and easily tarnishing), and not of a dead white; which are bright and clean, strong, pointed and short, and which form close and regular rows.
On the other hand, those are bad which are dingy and unclean, narrow, long and projecting forward, as though they would leave the mouth.
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