Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c5.310

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¹ Bhīshma here speaks as a true Indian: what is traditional, the custom of the fathers, is holy. Ask a Hindu why he follows this custom or that, and he will immediately say that his father taught him to do so and that it was handed down to him from time immemorial. Rāmakṛishṇa, *Life in an Indian Village*, London, 1891, p.