Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c5.276

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¹ As times beyond number in the world’s literature, so too in Indian literature, and especially in the MBh. over and over again is heard the partly painful, partly fierily energetic cry : “ Each is alone.” None belongs to anyone else, we are all but strangers to strangers, utterly cut off even from the dearest and nearest ; none knows the other, the self belongs only to the self. Man is born alone, alone he lives, alone he dies, alone he tastes the fruit of his deeds and his ways ; it is only