Verse 58

Śataka
Śṛṅgāra Śatakaशृङ्गारशतकम्
Chapter
Censure of Womenकामिनीगर्हणम्
Chhanda
Śārdūlavikrīḍitaशार्दूलविक्रीडित

[shringara-58]

जात्यन्धाय च दुर्मुखाय च जराजीर्णाखिलड्गाय चग्रामीणाय च दुष्कुलाय च गललत्कुष्टाभिभूताय चयच्छन्तीषु मनोहरं निजवपुर्लक्ष्मीलवश्रद्वयापण्यस्त्रीषु विवेककल्पलतिकाशस्त्रीषु रज्येत कः ॥५८॥

jātyandhāya ca durmukhāya ca jarājīrṇākhilaḍgāya cagrāmīṇāya ca duṣkulāya ca galalatkuṣṭābhibhūtāya cayacchantīṣu manoharaṃ nijavapurlakṣmīlavaśradvayāpaṇyastrīṣu vivekakalpalatikāśastrīṣu rajyeta kaḥ ||58||

Translation

These whores offer their pretty bodies for just a few pittances, to men who are blind by birth; who are bad-mouthed; whose bodies are deteriorated in all the limbs because of old age; who are strangers coming from any village; who are born in lowly families; who stink all over with pus due to leprosy. They indeed are weapons which destroy the wish-fulfilling creeper of discrimination. Who can be attracted towards them!? ॥ 58 ॥