The feminine ideals of modesty and shame in expressing sexuality are supported in the positive representation of the woman in poem 568 as well as in the negative representation of the prostitute in poem 630. Furthermore, poem 568 has an added religious context where the woman feels sexually liberated to enjoy the erotic pleasure due to the god of love, but this is only possible because her sexual relationship with her partner was under the auspices of love. In poem 630, this was certainly not the case with the numerous sexual relationships the described woman had with the men who loved her. By juxtaposing these two poems, we are able to gain a greater understanding of the Indian perception of love, pleasure and religion and how all these elements combine to determine