A History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature, so far as it illustrates the Primitive Religion of the Brahmans c6.184

c6.184

Bengal. See Viṣṇu-Purâṇa, p. 188. The word “godharma,” which occurs in the story of Dîrghatamas, in the Mahâbhârata, i. 4195., and which Prof. Lassen translates by “pastoral law,” must have an opprobrious sense, and Indian Pandits explain it by “open and indiscriminate concupiscence.”