Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c5.241

v1.c5.241

¹ Things would seem to go just as peacefully with Devikā, who chooses Yudhishṭhira, and with Vijayā, who chooses Sahadeva, while Bhīmasena gets Balamdharā as vīryaçuḷkā (i, 95.76 ff.). But here we have only a short account. This comparison is instructive: “As at a Svayaṃvara they (the warriors) rained blows on one another in the turmoil of the fight” (vi, 93.42). Cp. Mārkaṇḍeyapur., cxxii ff.; cxxxiii, 8 ff.