The Social and Military Position of the Ruling Caste in Ancient India, as Represented by the Sanskrit Epic c2.s6.159

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‡ i. 97. 5; 83. 34. This demand on a man is to be honored when made by any woman. In xiii. 143. 39 the ‘village custom’ is opposed to the rule *ṛtukāle patnīm upaṛayet*. There are indications that on birth the man and the woman was made impure. But by the common view both become impure: ‘some say the woman becomes impure, others say the father’ (B. i. 5. 11. 20–21); Vās. iv. 21; G. xiv. 15; M. v. 62. Compare in Greek antiquity Apoll. Argon. B. 1010 ff., describing the land ‘where the women bear children and the men groan and tie up their heads; but the women care for them.’