The bite

Dashanachhedyavidhi Prakarana

ll the areas that can be kissed, can be bitten, except the upper lip, the interior of the mouth, and the eyes. Good teeth are equal, pleasingly bright, capable of being colored, of proper proportions, unbroken, and with sharp edges. On the other hand, defective teeth are those that are blunt, rough, soft, large, loosely set and that protrude from the gums.

Healthy Biting

When the teeth are healthy the following kinds of biting can be done:

The hidden bite which is evident only by the excessive redness of the bitten skin.

If the skin is pressed down on both sides, it is called the swollen bite.

When a tiny part of the skin is bitten with two teeth only, it is called the point.

When small portions of the skin are bitten with all the teeth, this is referred to as the line of points.

As the nayika waits her lover sneaks into her embrace from behind and surprises her by playing with her breasts.

When biting is done by both the teeth and the lips, it is known as the coral and the jewel, the lip - the coral, the teeth - the jewel.

If biting is done with all the teeth, this is called the line of jewels.

A bite on the breasts, comprising unequal risings in a circle, which are due to spaces between the teeth, is called the broken cloud.

Bites on the breasts and the shoulders, consisting of broad rows of marks near one another, and with red intervals, are referred to as the biting of a boar. These two last modes of bites are for the intensely passionate.

The man seems to be holding his nayika to ransom as he plays with her breasts. She holds her hands up in an expression which shows she has given in to his advances without any resistance.

Female Preferences

In matters of love a man should indulge in such practices as are agreeable to women of different regions. The women of the central regions between the Ganga and Yamuna dislike pressing, nail-scratching and biting. The women of Balhika, Baluchistan, are won over by striking. Maharashtrian women enjoy practicing the sixty-four arts: they utter low, throaty sounds and like to be spoken to in the same way. The women of Pataliputra, or Patna, are like them, but disclose their liking only in secret. The women of Dravida, Tamil Nadu, though rubbed and pressed during intercourse, have a slow fall of semen and are very slow in the act of coition. The women of Vanavasi go through every kind of love-play, cover the marks on their bodies, and abuse those who utter mean and harsh words. The women of Avanti too hate kissing, marking with nails, and biting, but enjoy various kinds of sexual union. However, the women of Malwa like embracing and kissing, and are won over by striking. The women of Abhira and the Punjab are won over by auparishtaka, mouth congress. Aparanta's women are passionate. The women of Lat have impetuous desires and make gasping sounds during intercourse. The women of Stri Rajya and Koshala, Oudh, are similar; their semen falls in large quantities and they are known to take medicine to make it do so. Endowed with tender bodies, Andhra women are fond of enjoyment and voluptuous pleasures. The women of Gauda have tender bodies, and speak sweetly.

When engaged in congress, if the woman turns her middle part around like a wheel, they perform the top, which provides for highly voluptuous pleasure. The posture requires practice, adroitness and a highly flexible torso

A mark resembling the imprint of a peacock's foot is made around the nipple by placing the thumb below the breast and fingers above, and then squeezing it gently but firmly. This mark is desired by every woman and delights her immensely.

Of all the actions of embracing, kissing, and pressing, those which increase passion should be done first, and those which are only for amusement or variety should be done afterwards.

The shlokas on this subject state:

When a man bites a woman forcibly, she should angrily do the same to him with double force. Thus a point should be returned with a line of points, and a line of points with a broken cloud. If the woman is excessively chafed, she should begin a love quarrel with the man at once. At such a time she should take hold of her lover by the hair, bend his head down, and kiss his lower lip, and then, being intoxicated with love, she should shut her eyes and bite him in various places. Even by day, and in a place of public resort, when her lover shows her any mark that she may have inflicted on his body, she should smile at the sight of it, and turning her face as if she is going to chide him, she should show him with an angry look the marks on her own body that have been made by him. Thus if men and women act according to each other's liking, their love for each other will not lessen even in one hundred years.

The hero closely envelops his lover into his arms as he craves to kiss her.