When love becomes intense, pressing with the nails or scratching the body with them is practiced, and it is done on the following occasions: on the first visit; at the time of setting out on a journey; on the return from a journey; at the time when an angry lover is reconciled; and lastly when the woman is intoxicated.
But pressing with the nails is not a usual thing except with those who are intensely passionate, i.e. full of passion. It is employed, together with biting, by those to whom the practice is agreeable.
The places that are to be pressed with the nails are as follows: the arm pit, the throat, the breasts, the lips, the jaghana, or middle parts of the body, and the thighs. But Suvarnanabha is of opinion that when the impetuosity of passion is excessive, the places need not be considered.
The qualities of good nails are that they should be bright, well set, clean, entire, convex, soft, and glossy in appearance.
When a person presses the chin, the breasts, the lower lip, or the jaghana of another so softly that no scratch or mark is left, but only the hair on the body becomes erect from the touch of the nails, and the nails themselves make a sound, it is called a ‘sounding or pressing with the nails’. This pressing is used in the case of a young girl when her lover shampoos her, scratches her head, and wants to trouble or frighten her.
The curved mark with the nails, which is impressed on the neck and the breasts, is called the ‘half moon’.
When the half moons are impressed opposite to each other, it is called a ‘circle’. This mark with the nails is generally made on the navel, the small cavities about the buttocks, and on the joints of the thigh.
A mark in the form of a small line, and which can be made on any part of the body, is called a ‘line’. This same line, when it is curved, and made on the breast, is called a ‘tiger’s nail’.
When a curved mark is made on the breast by means of the five nails, it is called a ‘peacock’s foot’. This mark is made with the object of being praised, for it requires a great deal of skill to make it properly.
When five marks with the nails are made close to one another near the nipple of the breast, it is called ‘the jump of a hare’.
A mark made on the breast or on the hips in the form of a leaf of the blue lotus is called the ‘leaf of a blue lotus’.
When a person is going on a journey, and makes a mark on the thighs, or on the breast, it is called a ‘token of remembrance’. On such an occasion three or four lines are impressed close to one another with the nails. ‘The love of a woman who sees the marks of nails on the private parts of her body, even though they are old and almost worn out, becomes again fresh and new.
If there be no marks of nails to remind a person of the passages of love, then love is lessened in the same way as when no union takes place for a long time.’ Even when a stranger sees at a distance a young woman with the marks of nails on her breast, he is filled with love and respect for her.
A man, also, who carries the marks of nails and teeth on some parts of his body, influences the mind of a woman, even though it be ever so firm. In short, nothing tends to increase love so much as the effects of marking with the nails, and biting.
This website is best displayed in Firefox 3+,internet explorer 7+,Safari 3+,Opera 9+, Flock 2+, and Chrome 2+ versions