Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c5.324

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¹ According to the comm. as a woman unenjoyed (abhuktā). ² In Assam the younger brother cannot marry before the still unwedded elder one has given leave in writing. But the latter now cannot marry any longer, and is shunned as one without a caste (Starcke, *The Primitive Family in its Origin and Development*, New York, 1889, pp. 135-36). Among the German people, too, ridicule and contempt even now fall on such a luckless fellow or lover of freedom: at the younger brother’s wedding “he has to dance in the swine’s trough”, an expression I have heard Heaven knows how many times.