He who eats once is a tyāgin;
He who eats twice is a yogin;
He who eats thrice is a bhogin;
And he who eats four times a day
is verily destined to be a rogin!
Some find rest by going home,
Some find rest on the bed,
Some find rest in a woman,
But for some there is no rest,
except that which death brings.
Eight are the cremation grounds, the mahāśmaśāna-s:
caṇḍogra in the eastern reaches of the va~Nga-s,
yamajvāla where the sea laps the draṃiḍa shores,
varuṇakapāla where the ānarta-s have their drinks,
kuberabhairava where one learns mahālīlādevī’s teachings,
śrīnāyaka, outside which the andhra-s flock to brothels,
aṭṭahāsa, wherein cerikā-s are possessed by bhūta-s,
ghorāndhakāra, from beneath which hiṅgulā prances,
And kilikilārava where saṃkarṣaṇa slew the ape of gargantuan proportions.
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