Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c5.110

v1.c5.110

With the motive of the exposed Perseus or Cyrus or of “Moses in the bulrushes” (in his case smeared over with clay and pitch, 2 Moses, ii, verse 3) and of Kuntī, the maiden-mother, compare how in the Shahnameh Darab is exposed by his mother Humāi on the Euphrates in a precious small chest directly after his birth, and is found and adopted by washer-folk; Jātaka, v, p. 429; Chauvin, vii, 97; Hertel, Hemacandra’s Pariçiṣṭaparvan, ii, 238, and his references, p. 228, as also ZDMG (Zeitsch. d. deutsch. morgenl. Ges.), Bd. 65, p. 438 f.; H. Schurtz, Urgeschichte der Kultur (1900), p. 578; “The Wicked Stepmother” in Aino Tales, by Basil Hall Chamberlain, privately printed for the Folk Lore Society, xxii, p. 48; and above all Frobenius, With this, however, the sorrow that was to light upon the king’s daughter from this child Karṇa had only begun. Karṇa becomes, indeed, the friend and faithful comrade of Duryodhana, the fierce foe of her later children, the Pāṇḍavas, and in the desperate fight that breaks out between these and the Kauravas he fights with overwhelming and crushing heroic might against his brothers, especially against his rival Arjuna. When the young Pāṇḍavas have served their full time, their teacher Droṇa makes them show their skill before a splendid festal gathering. Arjuna stands out before all the others. Then a wonderful hero comes onto the arena, Karṇa, and does