Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c5.240

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without further hindrance. The same thing exactly happens in Damayantī’s case, although here there is some slight bantering by the gods.¹ But generally things do not go on so smoothly, a thing of which the literary Epic of later times has likewise made use. So Kṛṣṇa overcomes the angry rivals, and triumphantly carries off the daughter of the king of the Gandhāras.