Not one, not two, not three or four,
but through eighty-four hundred thousand vaginas
have I come,
I have come
through unlikely worlds,
guzzled on
pleasure and on pain.
Whatever be
all previous lives,
show me mercy
this one day,
O lord
white as jasmine.
Translated by: A K Ramanujan
Book Name: Speaking Of Siva
Publisher: Penguin Books
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