Chapter 13 · Verse 48

निष्कृपं कृष्यते रत्यै मृदुलेति प्रियेतिच । मुग्धेति दयिते नैषा नवयौवनशालिना ॥ ४८॥

IAST

niṣkṛpaṃ kṛṣyate ratyai mṛduleti priyetica | mugdheti dayite naiṣā navayauvanaśālinā || 48||

English

‘The youthful beloved draws her insistently into love precisely by calling her “tender one,” “beloved,” “innocent girl,” and “dearest”; he never treats her tenderness as a fault.’