(meaning
"belonging to someone else") A form of lover-beautiful relationship
in which the woman is thought to be married to someone else.
The most intense passion is supposed to be generated by
parakiya, since those who pursue it have nothing to gain except love itself—if
detected, they face disgrace and shame, and in any event, their affair has no
actual future.
This is not the traditional, safe love (svakiya) with one's
own spouse, which is sanctioned by marriage, has societal acceptance, and
normally implies procreation, but rather a perilous love sought only for
pleasure.
This is a common motif in Sanskrit poetry, and it is also
the dominant topic for depicting the connection between the deity Krishna and
his human bride Radha, which is said to symbolize the interaction between god
and the human soul.
