Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c5.271

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That pattern prince Dushyanta, under whom men led a paradise-like life, went forth one day to hunt, “and him in his towering kingly splendour the wives of this hero beheld there, as they stood on the palace battlements, him that won fame for himself, was like the prince of the gods, destroyed his foes and kept off their elephants. As the band of women gazed on him there, they held him for the wielder of the thunderbolt: ‘That is the tiger among men, like unto the Vasus for heroism in the fight. When the foemen’s host comes under his strong arm, then it is all over with them.’ With words such as these did the women in their love praise