Charak Samhita

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न स्त्रियमवजानीत, नातिविश्रम्भयेत्, न गुह्यमनुश्रावयेत्, नाधिकुर्यात्| न रजस्वलां नातुरां नामेध्यां नाशस्तां नानिष्टरूपाचारोपचारां नादक्षां नादक्षिणां नाकामां नान्यकामां नान्यस्त्रियं नान्ययोनिंनायोनौ न चैत्यचत्वरचतुष्पथोपवनश्मशानाघातनसलिलौषधिद्विजगुरुसुरालयेषु न सन्ध्ययोर्नातिथिषु नाशुचिर्नाजग्धभेषजो नाप्रणीतसङ्कल्पो नानुपस्थितप्रहर्षो नाभुक्तवान्नात्यशितो न विषमस्थो न मूत्रोच्चारपीडितो नश्रमव्यायामोपवासक्लमाभिहतो नारहसि व्यवायं गच्छेत् ||२२||

sanskrit

[Codes for behaviour with women] -One should not insult women, and should not place too much of faith in them. One should not disclose secrets to them nor should give authority indiscriminately. -One should not perform sexual intercourse with a woman during her menstrual period, with a woman suffering from a disease, or one who is impure, inauspicious, with undesirable appearance, with bad behaviour/conducts and manners or with the one devoid of skills. -One should not perform sexual intercourse with women who are not friendly, or one who is not having passionate desire or has passionate desire for some other person or is married to some other person. -One should not perform sexual intercourse with other animal species except human being, and with other body parts except genitals. -One should not perform sexual intercourse under holy trees, at sacred places, public courtyard, on a crossroad, in a garden, at cremation ground, execution place/ slaughter house, near water reservoir, in the medicine stores. Sexual intercourse is also prohibited in the houses of brahmins, teachers and in temples. -One should not perform sexual intercourse during the dawn and dusk and on inauspicious days i.e. on full moon days and pratipadas(first day of lunar month), etc. One should not perform sexual intercourse if unclean, if not taken aphrodisiacs, without prior determination and desire, without having proper erection, without food or after excessive food intake, on uneven place, while under the urge of micturition or defecation, after exertion, physical exercise, during fasting, after exhaustion or in a place having no privacy .

english translation

na striyamavajAnIta, nAtivizrambhayet, na guhyamanuzrAvayet, nAdhikuryAt| na rajasvalAM nAturAM nAmedhyAM nAzastAM nAniSTarUpAcAropacArAM nAdakSAM nAdakSiNAM nAkAmAM nAnyakAmAM nAnyastriyaM nAnyayoniMnAyonau na caityacatvaracatuSpathopavanazmazAnAghAtanasalilauSadhidvijagurusurAlayeSu na sandhyayornAtithiSu nAzucirnAjagdhabheSajo nApraNItasaGkalpo nAnupasthitapraharSo nAbhuktavAnnAtyazito na viSamastho na mUtroccArapIDito nazramavyAyAmopavAsaklamAbhihato nArahasi vyavAyaM gacchet ||22||

hk transliteration