 This is from Kali Das and she for her part revealing her affections by her limbs prickling like kadamba trees with their tiny flowers turned her beautiful face aside. So this line about how she reveals her affections because her limbs are prickling like little tiny kadamba flowers. This refers to the goose bumps that a woman would get when she saw the man that she was in love with. It's the excitement that she would feel. See the kadamba flower in our ancient literature is known as the flower of passion but also and I really want you to carefully visualize this. When these tiny tiny little flowers blossom they cover the entire branch just as goose bumps would cover your skin. You have to admit it is an exquisite visual. This is nature's arousal and the flowers are the manifestations of its pleasure and the woman in her arousal with her goose bumps is compared to that. You know I'm always so struck by the beauty with which a woman's pleasure was once portrayed. It was not slutty or filthy like we treat it now. It was a thing of beauty and it makes me realize yet again that it's all in the words that we use. Think about it if you use abusive words to describe something you will treat it abusively. On the other hand if you use beautiful words for something you will treat it beautifully. It's time to reclaim those words for yourself because only when you can think of your body, your pleasure, your desires as a thing of beauty can you even begin to change the narrative.