Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c5.252

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¹ This whole chapter (186), whose çlokas are wedged right in among the triṣṭubhs, so as to confuse the meaning, is probably a later tasteless intrusion. True, the Old Indians felt the barrenness of such an endless wilderness of names far less than we do, and 185.37, in the text as it is now, points to the following adhyāya. But this, too, is perhaps secondary. Anyhow, the old epic song or ballad poetry, too, naturally harboured good and bad.