Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c5.27

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The Epic, however, in many respects only gives us very fragmentary information about woman and her life and the value set on her among the Old Indians. But in general it is only a section of Old Indian life that is opened before us in the Epic poems. How much, indeed, do we learn as to the great mass of the people! The warrior and the Brahman take all our attention for themselves. I sing arms and the priest ! But happily there is incidentally a lot more besides in those huge works, and on our theme, too. Poetry can do without the husbandman and the burgher, but take away woman and you cut its very life away.