it does not seem to me that it should naturally be taken = breast, but indicate the whole vital and physical being regarded as a vessel or jar which can be filled with honey or water or poison. Nothing vulgar in that.Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
CWSA 27
Fragment ID: 6731
Sensuousness and Vulgarity
পূর্ণকুম্ভ [pūrṇakumbha], if it means the breasts, would be described in English as sensuous but not as vulgar. The word vulgar is only used for coarse and crude expressions of the sensual, trivial or ugly. But it does not seem to me that it should naturally be taken = breast, but indicate the whole vital and physical being regarded as a vessel or jar which can be filled with honey or water or poison. Nothing vulgar in that.
30 January 1937