Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c5.235

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¹ In Anguttaranikāya, iv, p. 339, we read that among the eight qualities that kept a “great” thief or a professional robber on a bigger scale from a speedy fall, and made it possible for him to carry on for a long time, there was this one: “He does not kill a woman, he forces or deflowers no maid.”