Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v2.c27.s6.4

v2.c27.s6.4

intruder on the scene, which often closes in the hour of its birth. But the very silence with which a female birth is accompanied forcibly expresses sorrow; and we dare not say that many compunctious visitings do not obtrude themselves on those who, in accordance with custom and imagined necessity, are thus compelled to violate the sentiments of nature. Families may exult in the Satis which their cenotaphs portray,¹ but none ever heard a Rajput boast of the destruction of his infant progeny.