Verse 52

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कामेन कान्तां परिगृह्य तद्व -ज्जनोऽप्ययं नश्यति नष्टदृष्टिः ।मांसास्थिमज्जामलमूत्रपात्रंस्त्रियं स्वयं रम्यतयैव पश्यति ॥ ५२ ॥

In plain words

In just the same way, this man takes hold of a woman out of desire and is destroyed — his sight already gone. A container of flesh, bone, marrow, filth and urine: that is what he is holding, and he looks at her himself and sees nothing but loveliness.

Close to the Sanskrit

Likewise this person too, having taken hold of a desirable woman through desire, perishes, his sight destroyed; a vessel of flesh, bone, marrow, filth and urine — a woman — he himself sees as nothing but lovely.