Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c5.384

v1.c5.384

but the sisters’ sons who inherit.¹ Çalya, who is thus mocked at, asserts, on the other hand, that in the land of Aṅga which is under the rule of Karṇa, they sell their children and wife (xiii, 45.40) ; and in the Rām. (ii, 30.8 ; 83.15) we are told that the çailūshas (actors) hand their wife over for others’ use, as Manu, viii, 362, also tells us. Neither of these, however, is really a case of hetærism, but they show the man, indeed, as the lord, free and none too tender, of the wife.²