[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Literature, language and dating](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature) › [A History of Indian Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927) › v2.c19.s6.t5.94 # A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s6.t5.94 A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s6.t5.94 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.s6.t5.94](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s6.t5.94) "He feels towards his enemy as towards himself; his mother is to him as his wife; a harlot is to him as his mother; a Brahman woman is to him as a Dombī (a female musician of the lowest caste); the skin of an animal is to him as a garment; a blade of straw is like a precious stone, wine is like urine, food is like mud, an insult like a hymn of praise, Indra like Rudra, day like night, what he has seen is like a dream, things which exist are like things which have been destroyed, pain is like pleasure, his son is like a rascal, heaven is like hell—and thus even good and evil are one and the same to him." - [Previous: v2.c19.s6.t5.93](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s6.t5.93) - [Next: v2.c19.s6.t5.95](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s6.t5.95) - [Up: v2.c19.s6.t5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s6.t5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s6.t5.94](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s6.t5.94) · Pramāṇa