Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c5.322

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wind, black in one ear; and the Brahman got them from Varuṇa, who brought them up from below the Gaṅgā at the very place the suppliant wished. Gādhi was astonished unto death, for he had naturally by his demand only wanted to be rid of the unwished for man, but he was afraid of the holy one’s curse, and gave him his daughter for this payment. “And when she had got such a husband, she was taken with the greatest joy.”