History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c92.144

v7.c92.144

The apologists for unpopular Tāntrik practices offer explanations of the five 'makāras' more or less on the lines of the Kulārṇava. For example, in his Introduction to the 'Principles of Tantra' (part II) Arthur Avalon (Sir John Woodroffe) gives (pp. CVII-CVIII) an esoteric explanation of the word 'drinking' used in such a verse as that in the Pārānandasūtra, 'Having drunk again and again, having fallen upon the earth, then having got up and again drunk (wine) there is no rebirth.'¹⁷⁵⁸