Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c5.311

v1.c5.311

iii, 115.20 ff. is quite the same, a passage with a rather ancient look about it. In Kanyākubja was a great and very mighty prince, famous under the name of Gādhi; he went off to live in the forest. But while he was living in the forest a daughter was born to him, like an Apsaras. Ṛicīka, the offspring of Bhṛigu, sought her in marriage. To him, the Brahman of unbending piety, Gādhi then spoke: "In our family a thing is customary which our forefathers brought in.