Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c5.351

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¹ There, indeed, the “beauteous maidens grow on trees”, and all live only for the pleasures of love, as the Epic, too, relates (see, for instance, Rām., ii, 91.19; iv, 43.37 ff.). [From Melanesia for plants turning into women cp. G. C. Wheeler, Mono-Alu Folklore (London, 1926), pp. 25-6 (Translator).]